Employees and travel agents caught trying to beat baggage weight regulations, while textile buyer inflates price for own gain Here are two more cases which highlight the ICAC's work in the Hong Kong community.
Case 7 In August 1989, 10 travel agents and two airline staff were charged with offences of conspiracy to defraud and offering and accepting advantages.
Evidence at the trial revealed that, between 1987 and 1988, the defendants conspired to defraud airline companies by under-recording the weight of passengers' baggage, thus reducing the excess baggage charge being levied on luggage checked-in at Kai Tak Airport.
The airline staff were given a commission by the travel agents as a reward.
It was also revealed that the agents sold their excess baggage allowances to cover baggage carried by passengers of other travel agents who had used up their allowances.
By doing this they were defrauding airline companies of surcharges, which they should have received for transporting excess baggage.
