Integrity Focus

A former head of the human resources department of an information technology company, charged by ICAC, today (June 12) admitted at the Kowloon City Magistrates’ Courts that he had solicited bribes from three job applicants for assisting them to obtain a higher monthly salary.

Chan Chun-po, 35, former manager of Aigens Technology Limited (Aigens), pleaded guilty to three counts of agent soliciting an advantage, contrary to Section 9(1)(a) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance. The prosecution offered no evidence to two similar charges against him.

Magistrate Mr Jacky Ip Kai-leung adjourned the case to June 30 for sentence, pending the defendant’s community service order report. The defendant was granted bail.

The court heard that at the material time, the defendant was the head of the human resources department of Aigens, which was an information technology company. Between August and November 2020, the defendant interviewed three job applicants for two posts of engineer and customer service.

The defendant told the three job applicants that he could assist them to obtain higher monthly salaries from Aigens, and solicited a bribe of $500, $3,000 or an unspecified sum from the trio respectively. The solicitations were rejected.

Aigens did not allow its employees to solicit or accept advantages from job applicants for assisting them to obtain a higher monthly salary from the company.

Aigens had rendered full assistance to the ICAC during its investigation into the case.

The prosecution was today represented by Senior Public Prosecutor Steven Liu, assisted by ICAC officer Ken Mak.