A company proprietor, charged by the ICAC, was today (October 8) sentenced to an imprisonment of 22 months at the District Court after admitting that he had deceived a bank into approving a loan of $3.1 million under the Special 100% Loan Guarantee (SLG) scheme by making false representations concerning the company’s contributions to the employees’ Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF).

The ICAC today (October 7) charged a then-senior supervisor of a supermarket chain and three then contractor or casual workers for allegedly conspiring together to deceive the supermarket chain of wages totalling over $3.2 million in two years by using attendance records of “ghost workers”.

The ICAC earlier charged several Health Inspectors of the Centre for Food Safety (the Centre) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) for allegedly abusing their power by failing to properly dispose of unused food samples after testing, and stealing those food. One of the Health Inspectors concerned pleaded guilty to his offence at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts today (October 3).

The ICAC today (October 2) charged a former director of an electronics assembly equipment manufacturer and a merchant for allegedly striking a deal with a shareholder of a technology firm to accept bribes totalling over $6 million from the latter for assisting the technology firm to be engaged as an electronics assembly equipment distributor.