A former marketing manager of a green wall installation company was charged by the ICAC yesterday (June 29) with fraud by making false representations to its clients that the company was renamed so as to divert its business totalling over $160,000 to a company related to her.

Five policyholders were charged by the ICAC yesterday (June 28) in separate cases for allegedly conspiring with others to deceive an insurer into granting a number of applications for accident insurance claims made by them and releasing them compensation and reimbursement of medical expenses totalling over $280,000 by making false representations about their injuries.

The ICAC today (June 28) charged an estate agent for allegedly soliciting a “tea money” of $9,000 from a flat owner for negotiating a higher selling price of the latter’s residential property at $4.568 million.

A former director of an optical retailer was charged by the ICAC today (June 27) for allegedly falsifying invoices totalling over $380,000 in relation to procurement of glasses and using them to deceive the retailer.

A property investor and his mother were brought to the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts this afternoon (June 24) after being charged by the ICAC this morning for allegedly conspiring together to deceive an investment partner into paying an agency commission of about $750,000 over the purchase of a shopping centre at $168 million by concealing that an estate agency owned by a defendant would receive part of the commission in relation to the transaction.

A man who was charged by the ICAC admitted at the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts today (June 24) that he had managed a divan where heroin and “ice” were sold to drug users. The illegal activities were revealed in the course of a corruption investigation.

A Police Station Sergeant, who was earlier charged by the ICAC with soliciting and accepting unauthorised loans of over $420,000 from four colleagues, was today (June 23) laid with three additional charges involving unauthorised loans of about $50,000 when he appeared at the Shatin Magistrates’ Courts.

The ICAC today (June 22) charged an insurance agent with conspiracy to defraud for allegedly recruiting a number of persons to join an insurance company as dummy agents and making false representations that they had handled over 200 insurance policies to deceive the insurer of commissions totalling about $30 million.

A divorced property agent was charged by the ICAC yesterday (June 21) with perversion and perjury in an application to the Family Court (FC) for relieving him from making a monthly maintenance payment of $2,500 to support his child by understating his income by over $3 million.

The ICAC today (June 21) charged a former sales manager of an insurance broker for allegedly deceiving the firm into paying referral fees totalling over $25,000 to her husband by making false representations that he was the referrer of 25 insurances policies taken out by a number of clients.