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https://scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3047712/walking-talk-40-years-later-retired-corruption
Hong Kong/ Law and Crime

Walking the talk: 40 years later, retired corruption investigator sees lessons in Hong Kong’s landmark bribery crackdown

  • Jimmy Wong, a retired chief investigator at ICAC, was part of unit that broke drug network’s stranglehold on local fruit market
  • Bust more than 40 years ago helped rebuild public confidence after years of open bribery, he tells secondary school students
Jimmy Wong (left) leads school pupils on a guided tour. Photo: May Tse

On a regular Saturday morning, it was business as usual at the Yau Ma Tei Wholesale Fruit Market in Hong Kong, with workers rushing around with fresh produce in carts and boxes piled high along many of its narrow mazelike alleys.

But among the hubbub, an unusual group appeared – Jimmy Wong Yiu-chung, a retired chief investigator of Hong Kong’s anti-graft agency, was giving a tour to 30 secondary school students.