Two former senior executives of a duty-free chain store, charged by the ICAC with conspiracy to defraud, were today (April 29) sentenced at the District Court to jail terms of 57 months and 14 months respectively for concealing their conflicting interest in companies set up by them over purchase and resell of bottled red wine sourced from a French supplier by inflating the prices by $12 million.

It has come to the attention of the ICAC that fraudsters who, by posing as ICAC officers and Mainland officials, requested victims to transfer substantial payments or collected cash in person from citizens for “priority investigation”, falsely claiming that they were under investigation by the Mainland Public Security authorities and the ICAC for money laundering, fraud or other criminal offences. The Commission solemnly clarifies that under no circumstances would citizens be asked to make any payment for “priority investigation” or investigation purposes, and urges members of the public to be cautious.

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.