A man accused of manipulating the derivatives market with others alleged that graft-busters coached him to give false evidence in court in exchange for immunity as he tried to have his case halted forever.
Meanwhile, the three ICAC officers accused of perverting the course of public justice for coaching the man, Cheung Ching-ho, were charged in Eastern Court yesterday.
Cheung, 39, was among five people arrested by the Independent Commission Against Corruption in 2008 for trying to manipulate the derivatives market and laundering more than HK$100 million.
He was originally offered immunity from prosecution, but later refused to testify and was charged with conspiracy to defraud. Raymond Ng Chun-to, the mastermind of the fraudulent scheme, was jailed for four years in April last year.
In District Court, Cheung's lawyers are trying to stay proceedings on the grounds that he would not have a fair trial. Cheung earlier presented in court a secret recording of six hours of conversations between him and ICAC officers.
He alleged chief investigator Cho Wing-nin, 46, senior investigator Chan Kai-hung, 36, and assistant investigator Au Kim-fung, 42, coached him to give false evidence in the trial in which Ng was jailed.