A former senior government official was fined $4,000 yesterday for secretly taking photographs up a woman's skirt with his mobile phone's camera.
Chan Yu-sun, 31, a former assistant secretary for Health, Welfare and Food, pleaded guilty in the Eastern Court to a count of disorderly conduct in a public place.
Chan, a graduate of the University of Toronto, joined the civil service in 1996 and was appointed to the assistant secretary post last year.
He resigned in September last year after he was arrested for taking the pictures of a woman sitting opposite him in a restaurant booth.
Fining him, magistrate Allan Wyeth said it was highly unlikely he would repeat the offence.
The maximum penalty for the offence is a fine of $5,000 and 12 months in jail.
