THE 31-YEAR-OLD nephew of Broadcasting Authority chairman Sir Roger Lobo has avoided jail after admitting false accounting charges in South Kowloon Court yesterday.
Although Magistrate Henry Brazier said the charges involved breach of trust, he suspended the jail term he passed on Pedro Joaquim De Lemos Lobo because of his wife's ill health.
Sir Roger, a former legislator, attended yesterday's hearing.
Lobo was accused of eight counts of false accounting when he was general manager of the United Services Recreation Club in Austin Road, Jordan, from September 1 to October 8, 1992.
For each offence he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, suspended for 18 months, to run concurrently.
Lobo had been responsible for day-to-day operation and staff recruitment for the club, which caters for people associated with the British services.
He dishonestly falsified two cash memos and six invoices, and obtained a total of $11,143 from the club by submitting them to its cashier, Watt Wing-yau.