The ICAC today (June 11) charged four employees of a contractor of the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) and two staff of a waste disposal company for allegedly offering and accepting advantages of laisees, coupons and drinks for assisting the company to unload construction waste to a landfill free of charge by disguising the waste loaded on trucks as non-construction waste and conspiracy to defraud the EPD.

Two women, charged by the ICAC, were today (June 11) sentenced to four weeks’ imprisonment at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts after admitting that they had bribed a bank employee with a wad of banknotes for opening a personal bank account.

A then director of an engineering consultant of the Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD), charged by the ICAC, was today (June 7) sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment at the District Court for defrauding the CEDD of a payment of about $2 million by concealing that its staff had falsified concrete cube test records in the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) Hong Kong Project. The 19 convicted laboratory staff concerned were earlier sentenced for their roles in the scheme.

A Foreman of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) was charged by the ICAC yesterday (June 4) for allegedly accepting an unauthorised loan of $60,000 from a subordinate in breach of the anti-bribery law.

A Housing Officer of the Housing Department (HD), charged by the ICAC, was today (June 4) convicted of an offence under the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (POBO) for using records containing false information to mislead the HD that she had conducted flat inspection visits to verify occupancy status of various flats of a public rental housing estate.

A then director of an engineering consultant of the Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD), charged by the ICAC, was today (June 1) convicted at the District Court of defrauding the CEDD of a payment of about $2 million by concealing that its staff had falsified concrete cube test records. The 19 convicted laboratory staff concerned were earlier sentenced in separate trials for their roles in the scheme.

A former manager of a licensed money lender, charged by the ICAC, was today (May 31) sentenced to 19 months’ imprisonment at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts for defrauding the money lender of referral rebates totalling about $320,000 by making false representations that a number of vehicle mortgage loan applications were referred by two intermediaries and laundering crime proceeds.

A then manager of a bank, charged by the ICAC, was today (May 30) sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment at the District Court for accepting bribes from various intermediary company representatives to assist non-domestic clients to open personal and corporate accounts with the bank, and using copies of false instruments to falsely represent that the clients were in Hong Kong when they made account opening applications.

The director of a former subcontractor of the Water Supplies Department (WSD) and three of his employees were charged by the ICAC yesterday (May 29) with conspiracy to defraud by submitting reservoir inspection reports allegedly containing false information to induce the WSD to release service payments totalling about $4.6 million to his company.

The ICAC had earlier neutralised a corruption syndicate in connection with football match-fixing and illegal gambling in operation “Green Grass”, resulting in the prosecution of some individuals. The Commission kicked off operation “Tenacity” this Monday (May 27) and further arrested 12 people after investigation revealed that members of football clubs were bribed for match-fixing to facilitate profiting from illegal gambling. Among the arrestees are the mastermind and backbone members of the scheme.