ICAC accused of acting in bad faith by not disclosing information of convictions at original trial of jailed engineer
The prosecutor in the corruption trial of Chan Kau-tai - the father of Canto-pop star Eason Chan Yick-shun - told the Court of Appeal yesterday he was not informed by the ICAC of the drink-driving and careless driving convictions of an ICAC officer involved in investigating Chan.
But Eric Tong Wing-tak, the ICAC officer assisting John McNamara in his prosecution of Chan, told the court he had informed him of the convictions during the trial two years ago.
Mr McNamara said he had no recollection of being told about chief investigator Eric Yang Yan-tak's convictions. He said that had he known about Yang's criminal record, he would have disclosed it to Graham Harris, Chan's defence lawyer in the trial.
'I am absolutely certain that had the ICAC taken me aside and told me about Yang's conviction, I would have told Graham,' he said.
The trio - Mr McNamara, Mr Harris and Mr Tong - took turns giving evidence in the criminal appeal by Chan, a former chief government building services engineer, against his conviction for accepting more than $3 million in bribes from contractors.
Chan, 59, was jailed for seven years in January last year after being found guilty by a Court of First Instance jury.