The ICAC and the Property Management Services Authority (PMSA) have joined forces to provide comprehensive training and support to property management companies (PMCs), practitioners and relevant stakeholders through a holistic strategy, which set to strengthen the anti-corruption awareness and enhance the integrity standard across the sector.

A then Police Constable, charged by the ICAC, was today (April 26) sentenced to four months’ imprisonment at the Shatin Magistrates’ Courts for accepting bribes totalling over $13,000 from a director of a money lending company for answering the latter’s enquiries in relation to the operation of the Police, and soliciting an unauthorised loan of about $10,000 from a colleague.

A couple and a relative of them were earlier charged by the ICAC for fraud over Traffic Accident Victim Assistance (TAVA) payments by the Social Welfare Department (SWD) and insurance compensation by allegedly making false representations about their injuries in traffic accidents. The wife today (April 25) admitted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts that she had defrauded the SWD and three insurers of totalling about $530,000.

A then electrician employed by a subcontractor of the construction site of a Community Isolation Facility in Yuen Long during the COVID-19 pandemic, charged by the ICAC, today (April 24) pleaded guilty at the Tuen Mun Magistrates’ Courts to his solicitation and acceptance of bribes from five fellow workers over their employment.

A former employee of a Chinese restaurant, charged by the ICAC, was today (April 23) given a jail term of four months and three weeks at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts for stealing over $23,000 from the restaurant by revising the relevant records in the computer system of the restaurant after customers had paid the bills.

The ICAC and the Competition Commission conducted their first joint operation in the past two days (April 16 and 17), neutralising a newly-rising syndicate engaging in corruption and tender-rigging in relation to building maintenance. In the joint operation, the ICAC arrested 20 persons, namely 17 men and three women aged between 36 and 70, including the mastermind and backbone members of the syndicate. The arrestees included project contractors, project consultants, middlemen, members of Incorporated Owners and members of property management companies.

In recent years, the ICAC has taken a series of enforcement actions against solicitation and acceptance of bribe payments from construction workers. Today (April 16) two more former employees of the main contractor and a sub-contractor of the Third Runway Project of the Hong Kong International Airport (Third Runway Project) were charged by the ICAC with accepting bribes of over $200,000 from an asphalt worker in relation to his employment with the sub-contractor. Arising from the relevant investigation, the Commission has so far charged a total of 28 persons, involving bribe payments totalling over $1.6 million.

Three former insurance agents, charged by the ICAC, were today (April 15) sentenced at the District Court to jail terms ranging from 25 months to 34 months for conspiracy to defraud an insurance company into paying commissions and bonuses totalling about $950,000 by making false representations about the handling agents of 10 policies.

The Insurance Authority (IA) and the ICAC have conducted their first joint operation targeting corrupt conduct in the unlicensed sale of insurance policies to Mainland customers. The joint operation was conducted pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the ICAC and the IA on October 26, 2023.

A former team manager of the Hong Kong, China’s Water Polo Team (HK Water Polo Team) was charged by the ICAC yesterday (April 9) for allegedly deceiving the Hong Kong Sports Institute (HKSI) into releasing government training allowances totalling over $410,000 by falsifying training records of athletes.