A part-time salesman who secured a job as a business manager in a bank by printing fake qualifications on his home computer was jailed for four months yesterday.
The Belgian Bank took on Poon Lap-fung after seeing his fake certificate of service, which falsely portrayed him as a marketing executive with Best Time Manufacturing Company.
The 27-year-old admitted obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception to win the $20,000-a-month position at the bank's San Po Kong branch. Poon, unemployed, was jailed by magistrate Tong Man who said the sentence would be a deterrent.
'Our commercial society places great emphasis on such documents. If we allow people to cheat employers in this manner, the whole society's foundation will be shaken,' Mr Tong said.
Poon was hired after an interview with the bank's senior personnel manager, Lee Shuk-ling, last October and he earned $66,590 before his resignation in February, the court was told.
The computer printouts showed him to have earned a monthly salary of $18,000 at Best Time. In fact, the company used him only as a freelance sales agent with no fixed income.
