A purser who saved a pregnant airline passenger from bleeding to death was convicted yesterday of an immigration scam.
Cathay Pacific chief purser Bernard Tang Bun, 49, was credited with saving the life of a passenger who miscarried while on a flight to Dubai on September 29, 1991.
Tang received an award of excellence from the airline, his barrister Albert Luk, told the District Court.
But he now has a criminal record for his part in an immigration scam concocted by his friend, Filipino Carlos Gonzalez, owner of the Kublai's restaurant chain.
Gonzalez, 37, was sentenced to 22 months in prison for convincing three friends, his wife and the restaurant chain manager to help him illegally employ five Filipino women as restaurant workers.
Deputy Judge Ian Candy said the offences 'went to the root' of Hong Kong's problem with illegal workers. The contract scam ran for five years until 1996.
The judge said the jail term was a 'deterrent sentence'.
