Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency has charged two more people, including a former warehouse manager, for allegedly defrauding the ParknShop supermarket chain out of more than HK$3.2 million (US$407,642) in wages through fraudulent work records. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) announced on Friday that it had levelled a charge of conspiracy to defraud against former…
A bribery scandal involving a 10 per cent shortfall of steel rebar in a residential project under Hong Kong real estate giant CK Asset is the result of collective and wilful oversight at the construction site, independent engineers have warned. While describing the incident as rare, they agreed that the government should step up inspection…
A former Hong Kong primary school principal has been remanded in custody pending sentencing for leaking exam questions to a private tutorial centre in which he had a stake and whose director was his mistress. The District Court on Wednesday convicted Henry Kwok Chiu-kwan, 52, of misconduct in public office for concealing his financial interest…
A former Hong Kong police officer is facing 30 counts of bribery and fraud after he was previously charged by the city’s anti-corruption agency with accepting an unauthorised loan from someone linked to an investigation. Magistrate Frances Leung Nga-yan on Friday approved an application by prosecutors to charge 50-year-old Mak Kwok-hung with the extra counts…
A Hong Kong actress’s daughter who attends two kindergartens, eats, naps, and uses the toilet in her car has earned her mother the label “monster parent”. Li Tianzong, 37, also known online as Lena, was born in Hong Kong to a mother who is a renowned pipa player. The former Miss Hong Kong contestant has…
Hong Kong’s top court has reinstated a former opposition lawmaker’s convictions and four-month jail sentence for exposing a probe into a police commander who led an investigation into mob violence at a railway station during the 2019 anti-government protests. The Court of Final Appeal on Tuesday ruled by a majority to reverse Lam Cheuk-ting’s acquittal…
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…