An insurance agent, charged by the ICAC, today (December 5) admitted at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts that he had defrauded an insurer of commissions and bonus totalling over $120,000 by making false representations that a number of insurance policies were handled by him, which was revealed in the course of a corruption investigation.

In the course of a corruption investigation, the ICAC had earlier revealed that a nurse formerly working at a Community Vaccination Centre (CVC) had made false representations about COVID-19 vaccine inoculation of six persons and assisted them in obtaining vaccination records. The nurse and a housewife earlier pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud while two others were found guilty after trial today. The four defendants today received jail terms ranging from two to six months at the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts.

A security supervisor of a public housing estate, charged by the ICAC, was today (December 2) convicted at the Shatin Magistrates’ Courts of soliciting bribes of over $10,000 from a subordinate security guard for assisting the latter to get promoted to assistant security supervisor.

A then member of the Incorporated Owners (IO) of a private residential building was charged by the ICAC yesterday (November 17) for allegedly using false cash memos to claim works payment from the IO revealed in the course of a corruption investigation.

A former manager of an electric motors company was charged by the ICAC yesterday (November 16) for allegedly deceiving the company into placing over 1,300 purchase orders of electronic parts worth totalling over $70 million with a supplier over a span of six and a half years by concealing the interests of him and his family member in the supplier. The case will be brought to the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts this afternoon for mention.

A former employee of a telecommunications company, charged by the ICAC, was today (November 17) sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts for accepting bribes to disclose personal information and data of over 540 customers obtained by his dishonest access to the company’s computer systems.

A former bank employee was charged by the ICAC yesterday (November 15) with accepting a bribe of HK$115,000 from an insurance agent for referring a client, and defrauding two clients of insurance premiums totalling over HK$820,000.

A logistics subcontractor was charged by the ICAC today (November 15) for allegedly inflating delivery fees and returning the differences as “sweetener” to bribe a manager of a logistics company for maintaining a good relationship and for the latter showing favour to the subcontractor in outsourcing various delivery orders worth totalling about HK$1.7 million.

A former engineer of the Airport Authority Hong Kong (Airport Authority) was charged by the ICAC today (November 14) with using various site supervision records containing false statements to mislead the Airport Authority and its fire services facilities design consultant that he had checked soil sampling and fielding testing for the East Fire Station of the Three-runway System Project (3RS Project).

A then head chef of a Chinese restaurant was charged by ICAC today (November 11) with soliciting and accepting bribes from a subordinate for assisting the subordinate and his wife to maintain employment with the restaurant and get promoted, and perversion by inciting the subordinate to make false statements to the Commission in respect of its investigation.