The Independent Commission Against Corruption announced yesterday (23rd) that a senior relationship manager of the Bank of East Asia and two representatives of intermediary companies were charged with offering and accepting bribes totaling more than 100,000 yuan to assist non-local customers in opening business transactions in three local banks. It was suspected of using false copies of documents when applying for account opening, falsely claiming that the client was in Hong Kong on the day the account was opened.
The defendants were granted bail by the ICAC and will appear in the Eastern Magistrates' Courts tomorrow (25th), pending referral of the case to the District Court for defence.
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The ICAC said it had launched an investigation after receiving a corruption complaint earlier.
The case involved 38-year-old Lai Chi Wai, a senior relationship manager at The Bank of East Asia, Limited (BEA); and two intermediary company representatives, 25-year-old Chen Pak Cai, a consultant to Hong Kong He Chuang Commercial Secretary Co., Ltd. 35-year-old Ke Yingying, the operator of Zhiying Consulting Co., Ltd. (Zhiying), was charged with a total of 15 counts.
The case is suspected to have occurred between December 2018 and March 2021. The persons involved are suspected of offering and receiving bribes totaling more than 100,000 yuan for at least 30 account opening applications.
At the time of the incident, Li Cihui was a senior relationship manager at the Admiralty Branch of the Bank of East Asia, and her responsibilities included assisting customers to open accounts.
He Chuang and Zhiying are both intermediary companies, providing secretarial services to customers.
Chen Baicai is the consultant of Hechuang, and Ke Yingying is the operator of Zhiying.
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Lai Cihui and Chen Baicai were charged with a total of 13 counts of corruption. Five of the charges allege that Chen Baicai and Lai Cihui were suspected of conspiracy to cause Li Cihui to accept five bribes ranging from 1,000 to 12,000 yuan from Chen Baicai to refer or to be referred for Chen Baicai. Advised customers to open a BEA account, or assist the BEA account holder to reset the account password to access online banking services.
The other three charges allege that Lai Cihui conspired with three other intermediary company operators or representatives to cause Lai Cihui to accept three bribes ranging from $1,000 to $20,000 to issue for the three or for clients referred by them. East Asia Bank Account.
Another indictment alleges that Lai Cihui allegedly accepted $1,000 from another person to open a Bank of East Asia account for him.
The other two charges allege that Lai, along with O Yingying and another person, respectively, allegedly conspired to use 34 copies of false entry labels that appeared to be issued by the Immigration Department with the intent to induce another person to accept them as copies of genuine documents.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) today (22) charged a former employee of a contractor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a subsidiary of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, for allegedly concealing the interests of himself and his mother in a company, in order to defraud the Hong Kong Institute of Higher Education to report maintenance works to the company. Issue purchase orders with a total value of over $550,000.
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BEA requires corporate account applicants to open an account in person at a branch in order to meet the due diligence requirements.
The person involved was accused of submitting an account opening application to BEA with a copy of these false entry labels, falsely claiming that the applicant was in Hong Kong on the day the account was opened.
The ICAC investigation found that the applicant did not visit Hong Kong on the date indicated on the false entry label.
The remaining four charges allege that Chen Pak-choi, alone and conspiring with another person, to provide four tranches of money to three staff members of different branches of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC) and a branch staff member of Hang Seng Bank Limited (Hang Seng Bank). The bribes, ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 or an unspecified amount, opened accounts with the two banks for the clients that Chan would refer.
The four bank employees immediately rejected the bribes offered by Chen Baicai and reported the incident to their employers.
The ICAC stressed that Bank of East Asia, HSBC and Hang Seng Bank provided full assistance during the ICAC's investigation into the case.
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