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Hong Kong’s ICAC postpones annual dinner after staff pull out en masse
No-shows thought to be expression of anger at removals of top investigators
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The city’s anti-corruption agency, facing turmoil at the top, has postponed its annual staff dinner on Friday after most of the workers who had signed up pulled out. The mass snub was an apparent reaction to the removal of former acting head of the organisation’s powerful investigative unit Rebecca Li Bo-lan.
On Wednesday night a spokesman said the staff club of the Independent Commission Against Corruption would select another date for the annual dinner after speaking to members.
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He did not say how many staff members had planned to drop out.
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Lam Cheuk-ting, a former ICAC investigator – who is standing for the Democratic Party in September’s Legislative Council elections – said he was told most of the agency’s staff who signed up for the annual event had changed their mind.
The dinner, planned to take place at the agency’s staff canteen at its North Point headquarters, charged several hundred dollars per head, said Lam, who served at the agency from 2007 to 2011.
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