MR Justice Mayo yesterday reserved judgement on an attempt to stay a prosecution of an amusement games centre operator charged with corruption.
The attempt was made on the grounds that the defendant was entrapped by an undercover ICAC officer.
Lau Wing-wo was charged with offering Mr So Kon-ming $30,000 for processing papers for his amusement games centre in Tsz Wan Shan, Kowloon.
Lau is seeking a judicial review of the magistrate's refusal to stay the case.
Senior Assistant Crown Prosecutor Mr Michael McMahon, in seeking to uphold the decision of magistrate Mr Alan Wright not to stay the case, said the ICAC officer acted properly throughout his investigation of corruption in the Television and EntertainmentLicensing Authority (TELA).
He said undercover operations were unpleasant but necessary.
