The ICAC today (April 27) charged two men. One is suspected of leaving a comment on a post on a media outlet’s social media page that incited others to cast blank votes at the 2025 Legislative Council General Election (LegCo Election) during the election period, while the other allegedly reposted a post on his social media page to incite others not to vote. The duo have been released on bail, pending their appearance at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts on Wednesday (April 29) for plea.

An ICAC corruption investigation earlier revealed that a then account supervisor of a party products supplier had misappropriated company funds totalling approximately $16 million by forging signatures on over 400 cheques. The defendant was today (April 24) sentenced to an imprisonment of six years and five months following his guilty plea to theft at the Court of First Instance of the High Court.

A company director, charged by the ICAC, was convicted today (April 24) at the District Court of offences including obtaining services by deception, following a corruption investigation that revealed the defendant had used a false passport to open bank accounts.

A proprietor of a secretarial company charged by the ICAC appeared in the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts for mention today (April 21) for allegedly offering a bribe of $6,800 to a bank employee to assist clients referred by her in opening bank accounts.

Following a corruption complaint referred by the Fire Services Department (FSD), an ICAC investigation revealed that a Senior Fireman borrowed a total of approximately $250,000 from four colleagues of higher ranks and a friend on the pretext that his father had been diagnosed with cancer. The defendant today (April 21) pleaded guilty to fraud and attempted fraud at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts.

A then administrator of an international kindergarten was today (April 20) sentenced to 25 months’ imprisonment at the District Court following her guilty plea to accepting bribes totalling $640,000 from several parents. She was among 15 people charged by the ICAC with corruption involving bribes exceeding $1 million to secure priority admission for children into its K1 classes. The 13 parents and a middleman involved were previously convicted of bribery and jailed.

A Senior Inspector of Police (SIP), charged by the ICAC, was today (April 20) convicted at the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts of accepting an unauthorised loan of $10,000 from a subordinate Police Constable (PC), and deceiving another SIP into lending him $130,000 on the pretext that a bank had called his mortgage loan.

Two then bank employees, among five individuals charged by the ICAC, were today (April 14) sentenced to imprisonment of 10 months and six months at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts for conspiring to accept bribes to assist clients referred by intermediaries in opening bank accounts.

The ICAC today (April 14) charged a middleman for allegedly offering cash bribes totalling $400,000 to two then managers of an accounting firm to assist a fabric manufacturer in its listing in Hong Kong.

Following a corruption investigation which revealed that certain applicants had illegally applied for certificates of registration as electrical workers and misled the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) to issue the relevant certificates by falsifying work experience, the ICAC earlier mounted an operation codenamed “Beacon Tower”, resulting in the prosecution of 20 individuals with multiple counts of conspiracy to defraud in separate cases. One of the electricians was today (April 13) sentenced to two months’ imprisonment at the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Courts.