Expanding its anti-graft network to further international cooperation has always been a priority of the ICAC. Stepping into 2025, the Hong Kong International Academy Against Corruption (HKIAAC) co-hosted the first-ever capacity building programme on meaningful youth engagement in anti-corruption work with the Anti-Corruption Bureau of Brunei Darussalam (ACB) to assist the latter to engage young people in promoting integrity. The joint effort also marked the beginning of a series of initiatives to promote international co-operation for the year.

A then team leader of a subcontractor of the Three-Runway System Project (3RS Project) of the Hong Kong International Airport was charged by the ICAC today (January 15) for allegedly soliciting a bribe of $100 to $200 per day from a crane operator for continuing his employment. The worker did not resort to bribery.

The ICAC yesterday (January 13) charged four members of the same family for alleged vote-rigging at the 2023 Rural Ordinary Election – Resident Representative Election for Ha Pak Nai Tsuen in Yuen Long. The four defendants allegedly voted at the election, although they knew they were not entitled to do so, while two of them made false representation about living in the village to an electoral registration officer.

A then Associate Director of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) was charged by the ICAC today (January 9) with conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice by allegedly providing advice to subjects of an SFC investigation into suspected market manipulation in relation to a listed company on how to conduct themselves in the probe, including destroying potential evidence.