A housing officer of the Housing Department was suspected of using documents containing false approvals when handling two applications for transfer of PRH flats, falsely claiming that the transfer had been approved by his supervisor, and that a larger unit was reserved for the tenants of Kwai Chung Village involved. Subsequently, the housing files of the relevant cases were destroyed without authorization.
He was also suspected of illegally altering the Social Welfare Department's memo to delay the processing of the application.
The HD employee was charged with four crimes by the Independent Commission Against Corruption today (12th) and has been released on bail. The case will be pleaded in the West Kowloon Court on Friday (14th).
A Housing Officer of the Housing Department was suspected of using documents containing false approvals and falsified Social Welfare Department memo when handling two applications for transfer of PRH flats to delay the processing of the applications.
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The defendant, Bao Wenhao (Housing Officer of the Housing Department, aged 35), was charged with two counts of using a document by an agent with intent to deceive his principal, one count of criminal damage and one count of forgery, totaling four counts.
The charge alleges that when Bao Wenhao was posted to Kwai Chung Village in 2014, he received an application from a tenant in the village to add one of his relatives to the unit's household registration for transfer to another larger unit in the village.
Defendants are subject to review to verify their eligibility.
At the end of November of the following year, he misled the HD with two documents, falsely claiming that a senior housing manager of the HD had approved the above-mentioned transfer and reserved a larger unit for the tenant.
From December 2015 to May 2016, he then destroyed a housing file of the Housing Department concerning the above-mentioned tenants in Kwai Chung Estate without authorization.
In addition, when he was posted to Fu Cheong Estate in June 2020, he processed another transfer application referred by the Economic and Social Services Department (Dated 16 June 2020).
Between June and July of the same year, he falsely changed the date of the above-mentioned note to June 18, 2021, with the intent that he or others would use the note to induce another person to accept it as a genuine document.
After receiving a corruption complaint referred by the Housing Department earlier, the ICAC launched an investigation and revealed that the defendant was suspected of using the above-mentioned illegal acts to cover up his delay in processing the application. After seeking legal advice from the Department of Justice, the accused was charged today.
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