Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency has charged a 49-year-old correctional services officer with fraud after he allegedly deceived a credit union and three financial institutions into granting him 17 loans totalling more than HK$1.5 million (US$193,050). Jivcons Man Wai-kit, an assistant officer at the Correctional Services Department (CSD), was charged with 17 counts of fraud and…
Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency has charged four people including a football club owner for allegedly offering bribes to fix match results in the 2021-22 season. They included an alleged illegal bookmaker, Yao Xiaocong, 40, and Fu Moon Athletic Association owner and coach Lo Hong-ming, 30. Lo also played as a defender in matches. The other…
Two former project managers of ATAL Engineering, a company founded by the husband of Hong Kong’s ex-justice secretary Teresa Cheng Yeuk-wah, have been charged for allegedly committing fraud linked to HK$6.3 million (US$808,820) in maintenance orders for sewage treatment facilities. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said on Wednesday that Yip Hing-fai, 45, and Wong…
Crime-themed attractions such as Hong Kong’s ICAC Cafe and Japan’s Prison Museum, designed to promote legal culture, are drawing growing numbers of tourists. Official data shows that Hong Kong received over 290,000 visitors during New Year’s Eve and the first day of the new year, more than 77 per cent of them came from the…
A mainland woman who sneaked into a wedding banquet in Hong Kong, pretended to be a friend of the newlyweds and posted a video of herself enjoying the feast, has sparked online outrage. The woman, who goes by the name @kuailefeizhaidejiejie on social media, posted videos of her having a wedding feast in the city…
Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency has charged a former senior supervisor of the ParknShop supermarket chain and three ex-contractor and casual workers for allegedly conspiring to deceive the company over wages amounting to more than HK$3.2 million (US$411,980) by using attendance records of “ghost workers”. Lau Kin-pong, 42, former senior supervisor of the chain; Tai Kin-man,…