PUBLISHED : Saturday, 26 September, 2015, 12:12am
UPDATED : Saturday, 26 September, 2015, 12:12am
The man is accused of bribing others to run for election
A man has been charged by the Independent Commission Against Corruption for allegedly offering bribes totalling HK$550,000 to prospective candidates in the coming district council election.
Cheng Wing-kin, a 31-year-old waiter, will appear in Eastern Court this morning.
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He’s accused of offered advantages to four persons to stand as candidates, or get others to stand as candidates, in the November polls.
He was arrested on Thursday and faces five counts of corrupt conduct in an election.
The ICAC investigation was triggered by a complaint.
The district polls take place in November
Two of the charges allege that Cheng, between Jul 8 and July 18 this year, offered advantages of HK$400,000 to a person to run for election in a specified geographical constituency, and to get another person to stand as a candidate.
Cheng is also accused of offering HK$10,000 and two unspecified sums of money to three persons between July 12 and August 17 to induce them to get three others to run in three specified districts.
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