Updated at 5.16pm: Deputy tax chief Agnes Sin Law Yuk-lin and her husband were found guilty on Thursday of swindling the Government out of more than $330,000 in rental allowances.
District Court Judge Derek Pang Wai-cheong convicted Deputy Commissioner of Inland Revenue Agnes Sin, 53, of one count of using a document with intent to deceive the Government. Sin had denied the charge.
Her husband, civil engineer Sin Kam-chuen, 53, was convicted of one count of aiding and abetting the fraud. He had also denied the charge.
Judge Pang found that the couple had a financial interest in the flat they were renting with their housing allowance. Judge Pang said he had no doubt they intended to conceal this interest from the Government.
The court had heard the the Sins colluded with close friends to use shelf companies in an elaborate scheme to defraud the Government between 1983 and 1986.
The close friends said to have assisted the Sins are accountant Fan Sai-yee and his wife Wong Chi-ching, who had known Agnes Sin since school and worked with her at the department.