ICAC charges 5 in alleged bribery-for-contracts scheme tied to $90mn building works
發佈日期: 2026-03-25 20:04
TVB News
The Independent Commission Against Corruption has charged five people over alleged bribery-for-contracts schemes linked to three residential building maintenance works worth about 90 million dollars.
Four men and a woman, including a secretary of the owners' corporation and several alleged "middlemen" of the building maintenance projects, face eight charges under the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance.
The defendants, aged between 42 and 70, appeared at the Eastern Magistrates' Courts and have been released on bail.
The ICAC and the Competition Commission earlier mounted a joint operation, uncovering a syndicate suspected of securing building maintenance contracts through bribery and bid-rigging.
The cases involve tenders at three estates including Yan Tsui Court in Chai Wan, Hoi Tao Building in Kennedy Town and Victory Garden in Kwai Chung.
In the Victory Garden case, suspect Wong Sheung-yu, allegedly offered casino chips of an unspecified amount and renovation services worth around 50,000 dollars to the Chairman of the owners' group four times between July 2020 and April 2024 in hopes of getting his help to secure work for certain consultants and contractors recommended by Wong.
These bribes were eventually rejected, and the project worth 21 million dollars was eventually awarded to other companies.
In another case involving a major maintenance contract for Hoi Tao Building in Kennedy Town, the ICAC says residents had initially approved a 31 million-dollar contract to a construction company but some other owners filed a lawsuit to overturn it.
The two alleged "middlemen" are accused of offering "red packets" and bribes totalling about 600,000 dollars to a representative of the owners' group from 2022 to 2024, in an attempt to persuade him to lobby other owners to settle and to allow the original construction firm to proceed with the contract.
That owner representative rejected the offers.
In the Yan Tsui Court case, the anti-graft body alleged that a defendant conspired with the then secretary of the owner's group to bribe the chairman of the owners' corporation in a bid to secure a contract associated with the defendant.But that owners' group member refused.
The ICAC says investigations are ongoing and is not ruling out more arrests.
