Hong Kong woman jailed for 2 months for trying to bribe driving instructor with HK$400 mooncake voucher
- Li Zheng-chun failed parking portion of test and tried to offer instructor from Transport Department mooncake voucher in bid to pass her
- Anti-corruption agency arrested her same day and magistrate says deterrent sentence necessary as warning to public
A 54-year-old woman has been sentenced to two months in jail in Hong Kong for trying to bribe her driving test examiner twice with a mooncake voucher after she made a serious mistake during the parking portion.
Li Zheng-chun received the jail term at Sha Tin Court on Thursday after she pleaded guilty to offering bribes to the examiner during her private car driving test last September, close to the Mid-Autumn Festival.
During the test, Li had made a “serious mistake” by parking half of the vehicle outside the boundary of the designated space, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said.
Li then twice offered her examiner a mooncake voucher worth more than HK$400 (US$51), hoping to pass the test.
The Transport Department examiner, who had been randomly assigned, failed Li for her serious mistake and reported the incident on the same day to the department, which alerted the ICAC.
She was arrested immediately by the anti-corruption agency at the department’s driving test centre at the Hong Kong School of Motoring in Sha Tin on September 14, 2023.