Bank account details withheld

A businessman was charged yesterday with failing to provide bank account details to the ICAC during an investigation into an alleged horse race-fixing scam.

Seng Ming-ta, 50, denied in Western Court a charge of failing to furnish a statutory declaration to an officer of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). Seng, a director of Star Source Trading, was approached by the ICAC on March 21.

Magistrate Simon Jenkins set a trial date of November 17 in Western Court. Seng was released on $20,000 bail.

Earlier, businessman Ng Siu-chau denied seven counts of offering bribes to apprentice jockeys. He will be tried on November 11 in the District Court.