The ICAC today (April 26) charged four persons with accepting and offering a bribe of $1 million for gaining favour from a main contractor over its construction projects, and conspiracy to falsify accounts to cover up the bribe payment.

A director of a consultancy firm and a director of an engineering company, charged by the ICAC, were convicted at the District Court today (April 26) of conspiracy to defraud by inducing a project developer to award to the duo’s companies a plumbing and drainage installation contract of a hotel redevelopment project in Mongkok worth over $23 million.

Three persons, who were neither candidates nor election expense agents of any candidates of the 2016 Legislative Council (LegCo) General Election (the Election), charged by the ICAC, today (April 25) admitted at the District Court that they had engaged in illegal conduct at the election by incurring election expenses totalling over $253,000 for placing six advertisements in two newspapers.

A then site team leader of a sub-contractor of the Third Runway Project of the Hong Kong International Airport (Third Runway Project) was today (April 25) convicted at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts of accepting illegal rebates totalling over $17,000 from three construction workers. The defendant was among six charged by the ICAC with bribery for assisting construction workers to secure employment with the sub-contractor.

Two senior executives of two construction companies, charged by the ICAC, were today (April 23) convicted at the District Court of conspiracy to defraud for their roles in a $75.3 million letters of credit (L/Cs) scam, and laundering over $10 million in crime proceeds.

A former manager of a private wet market, charged by the ICAC, was today (April 22) sentenced to 16 months’ imprisonment at the District Court after admitting that he had accepted bribes totalling $34,000 from two tenants over stall leasing matters and had stolen rents totalling over $157,000 from three other tenants.

A former branch manager of a property agency was yesterday (April 20) charged by the ICAC with accepting bribes totalling over $37,000 from a subordinate for naming the latter as a negotiator in two property transactions.

The ICAC yesterday (April 19) charged a property buyer and two estate agents with conspiracy to defraud by falsely understating that the purchase price of a residential property in Shatin was only $10 million so as to obtain a bank mortgage loan with an 80 per cent loan-to-value (LTV) ratio, which amounted to $8 million.

The ICAC today (April 20) charged an employee of a subcontractor of the Highways Department (HyD) for allegedly using a false quotation to make a reimbursement claim for expenses of $119,000 with the main contractor.

Two persons, charged by the ICAC in separate cases, were today (April 19) sentenced at the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts for reposting on their respective social media pages a post which incited others to cast blank votes at the 2021 Legislative Council General Election (LegCo Election) during the election period.