A ParknShop operations support manager admitted in Kwun Tong Court yesterday that the supermarket's policy of selling each customer only three cans of baby milk formula was only loosely enforced.
Eric Lo is a witness in the trial of five people who have pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud and bribery in relation to the sale of baby milk formula.
A Watson's supervisor, 40-year-old Lau Koon-hung, who was charged with accepting bribes, pleaded guilty.
The accused are: Wu Ka-keung, 42, Lam Kwok-fai, 36, Anson Ng Ching-kin, 32 - all managers at ParknShop; and Cheung Shiu-chor, 51, and Wu Xiankuai, 40, both traders.
The six defendants face a total of 12 counts - four of conspiracy to defraud, four of offering an advantage to an agent and four of accepting an advantage. The Independent Commission Against Corruption, which arrested them in May last year, accused the six of conspiring to collect milk formula for sale across the border.
ParknShop and Watson's are part of the A.S. Watson Group, which on March 14 last year started limiting customers to three cans of the formula a day.