A couple involved in the Hong Kong government’s water scandal have been arrested again for breaching the Trade Descriptions Ordinance, days after being charged with fraud over the bottle water procurement. The Customs and Excise Department on Wednesday said it arrested a company director, 61, and a 57-year-old female shareholder earlier in the day and…
Hong Kong police have arrested a married couple suspected of being at the centre of a rapidly unfolding controversy surrounding a HK$52.9 million (US$6.8 million) contract to supply drinking water to some government offices. The pair allegedly defrauded the government and are suspected of breaching the Trade Descriptions Ordinance by providing false information about the…
Hong Kong police have arrested a married couple suspected of defrauding the government in connection with a HK$52.9 million (US$6.8 million) contract to supply drinking water to civil service offices. Kung Hing-fun, the senior superintendent of the force’s commercial crime bureau, said on Monday that the man, 61, and woman, 57, were arrested the previous…