Seven arrested on suspicion of controlling building maintenance project's tendering
發佈日期: 2026-05-05 20:10
TVB News
The Independent Commission Against Corruption arrested seven people on suspicion of corruption in a tender exercise of a building's renovation project in Mong Kok.
The ICAC launched an investigation and operation after receiving a public complaint reporting the suspected corruption. Authorities have now arrested five men and two women, aged between 37 and 75, including the chairman of an Incorporated Owners, or IO, the owner of a project contractor and directors of a project consultancy firm.
Investigation shows that the project contractor's owner allegedly controlled the consultancy firm through his associates and secured the maintenance contract at a low price. To ensure his company would be chosen as the contractor, the owner was said to have concealed his roles as a project contractor and consultant in the tendering process.
For the consultancy firm, the corruption watchdog found that it did not declare its conflicting interests with the project contractor as required by the IO. And authorities suspected the chairman had been bribed for colluding in the scheme.
But the plot failed in the end -- the contractor did not secure the 20-million-dollar contract -- because property owners had speculated irregularities during the tendering process.
Another discovery in the ICAC operation is that the contractor and consultant omitted their conflicting interests in two other maintenance projects in Sham Shui Po and Tai Hang. The two contracts involve a sum of about 6 million dollars. Authorities managed to intercept the illegal activities.
