The graft-buster and a string of headline grabbers
A series of high-profile complaints is fuelling debate on whether the ICAC has been politicised
It all started when former chief executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen was accused of accepting favours from tycoon friends.
News of the scandal was all over the media, and in February last year, members of the League of Social Democrats filed a formal complaint against Tsang to the Independent Commission Against Corruption. The graft-buster is still working on the case.
Since then, a number of senior officials and prominent politicians caught up in allegations of corruption have been subjected to the same treatment.
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying's controversial remarks this month - that two of his allies who quit the Executive Council deserved apologies from their accusers - are just the latest development in a debate on whether the ICAC has been politicised.
The trend of political groups following up news of scandals with high-profile complaints, delivered in person to the ICAC headquarters in front of the cameras, began well before trouble struck then Exco members Franklin Lam Fan-keung and Barry Cheung Chun-yuen. Similarly embattled officials include Leung himself, former chief secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen and former development minister Mak Chai-kwong.
Leung made his remarks in Tin Shui Wai on August 11, after the graft-buster decided, because of insufficient evidence, not to charge either Lam or Cheung.