ICAC Commissioner Mr Woo Ying-ming today (August 28) concluded a five-day visit to Vienna, Austria. During the fruitful visit, Mr Woo and Ms Monica Juma, the newly appointed Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), held their first bilateral meeting. Mr Woo noted that the ICAC and the UNODC were close partners who have jointly delivered more than 20 initiatives over the past three years, including co-organising training programmes in Hong Kong and capacity-building programmes for jurisdictions worldwide, co-producing anti-corruption guidebooks, and sharing experiences at UNODC meetings. These efforts have earned strong recognition from the international community and benefited law enforcement agencies across dozens of jurisdictions.

ICAC Commissioner Mr Woo Ying-ming, leading his delegation, is departing for Vienna, Austria, today (August 24) to attend an anti-graft meeting of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

A then bank manager charged by ICAC was today (August 24) convicted at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts of breaching the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (POBO) by disclosing to a family member that he was under ICAC investigation.

The ICAC charged an Associate Professor at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) yesterday (August 20) for allegedly accepting bribes totalling approximately $2.2 million in cash from a service provider to award seven purchase orders exceeding $10 million for Information Technology (IT) education projects targeting primary and secondary schools. The Associate Professor, along with the service provider, his wife and his nephew, was also charged with suspected fraud regarding HKU’s service fees.

A shop manager of a fast-food chain, his wife and six “phantom workers” appeared at Tuen Mun Magistrates’ Court today (August 18) after being charged by the ICAC for allegedly conspiring to deceive the fast-food chain into paying wages totalling approximately $680,000 by falsely representing that the “phantom workers” had worked as shop assistants for over 1,500 days. Over half of the sum has been returned to the shop manager and his associates. The case was transferred to the District Court for plea.

The ICAC earlier charged two technical officers of a property management company (PMC) with an offence under the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (POBO) for using nearly 120 false quotations to mislead the PMC while handling various minor maintenance and repair works of a private residential estate, involving a total value of approximately $600,000. One defendant had already pleaded guilty earlier, the other was convicted today (August 18) at the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts.

ICAC Commissioner Mr Woo Ying-ming, leading an ICAC delegation, attended the 43rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Anti-Corruption and Transparency Experts’ Working Group Meeting held in Dalian today (17 August) to foster the implementation of “Beijing Declaration on Fighting Corruption” (the Declaration), and strengthen international anti-graft collaboration.

Two employees of a printing company, charged by the ICAC, were sentenced today (August 17) after admitting at the District Court that they had deceived the company into engaging a relative of one of them to provide delivery services by concealing a conflict of interest, thereby making personal gains of about $1 million.

The ICAC today (August 16) charged a then manager of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) for allegedly obtaining dishonest access to the internal information system of the SFC, which contained confidential information on licensees and investigations of the SFC. The case is scheduled for mention at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts tomorrow (August 17).

A kitchenware supplier charged by the ICAC today (August 13) admitted at the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts that she had bribed a purchasing manager of a Chinese restaurant to secure kitchenware orders, with the bribe amounting to 15 per cent of the order value.