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Mar 2025Subcontractor duo admit bribery over employment of workers at Community Isolation Facility construction site
A then team leader and a then construction worker of a works subcontractor, charged by ICAC, today (March 7) admitted at the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts that they had solicited and accepted bribes totalling about $98,000 from four formwork workers referred by them to work at a Community Isolation Facility construction site on Lantau Island during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lui Yu-shan, 53, then team leader of Ching Hung Engineering Company Limited (Ching Hung); and Chen Qiang, 46, then construction worker of Ching Hung, pleaded guilty to three counts of agents soliciting an advantage and one count of agent accepting advantages in total, all contrary to section 9(1)(a) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance.
Acting Principal Magistrate Mr Cheng Lim-chi adjourned the case to March 26 for sentence, pending Lui’s background report and Chen’s community service order report. The duo were remanded in custody of the Correctional Services Department.
The court heard that between March and June 2022, Ching Hung was a formworks subcontractor of the construction of a Community Isolation Facility at Penny’s Bay on Lantau Island responsible for providing construction workers. Lui was a team leader of Ching Hung tasked to refer workers to the company and to supervise them, including Chen, at the construction site.
In early March 2022, four formwork workers started working at the construction site at a daily wage of $2,000 each under the supervision of Lui upon Chen’s referral. On various occasions, the two defendants solicited bribes of $500 per working day from the four workers and requested them to pay the bribes to Lui in relation to their employment.
The ICAC investigation arose from a corruption complaint. Enquiries revealed that the four workers made bribe payments totalling about $98,000 to Lui after receiving wages from Ching Hung in fear of losing their jobs.
Ching Hung rendered full assistance to the ICAC during its investigation into the case.
The prosecution was today represented by ICAC officer Keith Yan.