An ICAC delegation led by Commissioner Woo Ying-ming today (April 25) touched down in Brunei to commence a duty visit to three member states (Brunei, Singapore and Indonesia) of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

A site team leader of a sub-contractor of the Third Runway Project of the Hong Kong International Airport (Third Runway Project), charged by the ICAC, was today (April 24) sentenced to six months’ imprisonment at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts after being convicted of accepting bribes totalling about $44,000 from a carpenter by blackmail.

A former contract staff member employed by an intermediary to work at the Working Family and Student Financial Assistance Agency (WFSFAA) appeared at the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts today (April 24) for mention after being charged by the ICAC for allegedly falsifying his attendance records to defraud the intermediary of salary payments totalling over $32,000.

Following thorough inquiries into corruption complaints alleging corruption and exploitation involving importer workers, the ICAC today (April 22) brought charges to a subcontractor of the Terminal 2 expansion works of the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) for allegedly collecting bribes totalling over $1 million from 21 imported workers in relation to their employment.

A former project manager of a fabric company, charged by the ICAC for making false representations to cause three customers to place orders worth totalling about $1 million with companies owned by his associates and laundering crime proceeds of about $720,000, was today (April 22) sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment at the District Court.

In operation “Tenacity” mounted earlier, the ICAC had cracked down a suspected corruption syndicate in connection with football match-fixing and illegal gambling. Following intensive investigations, seven individuals had so far been charged by the Commission. Two of them today (April 17) admitted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts that they had placed bets with bookmakers and were fined $24,000 and $12,000 respectively.

A director of a garment accessories trading company, charged by the ICAC, was earlier sentenced to 22 months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to offering bribes to employees of two garment manufacturers in exchange for various purchase orders between 2014 and 2019. The District Court today (April 14) ordered to confiscate from the defendant crime proceeds of $2.35 million, being the profits he made in the case.

A then Police Constable, charged by the ICAC for allegedly accepting an unauthorised loan from the subject of an investigation, was further laid with 30 counts of bribery and fraud when he appeared at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts for mention today (April 11). The defendant was suspected of soliciting and accepting a bribe of $100,000 from an investment scam complainant for his assistance in a Police investigation, and concealing his debts in the application with the Police for extension of service and the applications with various financial institutions for loans totalling over $2.4 million.

The ICAC had earlier charged two Assistant Officers of the Correctional Services Department (CSD), a prisoner and two released prisoners with conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office (MIPO) for conniving at the unauthorised possession and use of a mobile phone by the prisoner and introducing unauthorised cigarettes into Tong Fuk Correctional Institution (TFCI) for him. Following the guilty pleas and jailing of two of the defendants, the remaining trio, who were convicted after trial, were today (April 8) sentenced at the District Court to jail terms from nine months to two years.

A former bank employee and a couple, both insurance agents cum intermediaries, were charged by the ICAC yesterday (April 2) for allegedly conspiring together for the bank employee to accept bribes totalling over $150,000 for assisting clients of the intermediaries to open bank accounts.