executive on tax and corruption charges
Tse Sui Luen Jewellery official Wong Ting-fong, 51, appeared in Eastern Court yesterday to face corruption and tax evasion charges brought by the anti-graft agency. Wong, the firm's business promotion general manager, who is on $200,000 bail, has entered no plea to 20 charges relating to offences alleged to have taken place between August 1996 and April last year. He is the fifth executive of the publicly listed firm to face charges. The case was adjourned to April 24.
internet scam nets $1m for guitar lessons
Two men who run a Mongkok guitar school were being questioned by police over a $1 million on-line scam involving over 300 victims. The victims, all males, met a 'girl' on the internet who sweet-talked them into buying lessons at the guitar school only for her not to show up. The men were reported to have paid the school $8,000 each.
teen jailed over heroin
A 16-year-old boy was jailed for four years and nine months after pleading guilty in the Court of First Instance to drug trafficking. The boy was intercepted by police outside the Eaton Hotel in Yau Ma Tei on October 25 last year in possession of $43,000 worth of heroin hydrochloride.
