Many people were involved in a syndicate that allegedly conspired to help people board planes at Hong Kong International Airport with forged documents, a court heard yesterday.
One defendant in a case had told police about three more people, prosecutor Neil Mitchell told the District Court on the first day of the hearing, without disclosing whether any more were arrested.
Mitchell was opening the case against Chau Pak-kin, 26, and Chan Wing-chung, 27, who both deny one count of conspiracy to obtain services by deception with their supervisor and other persons unknown, between March 1 and December 16 last year, to allow seven unauthorised passengers to board four Air Canada planes flying from Hong Kong to Canada. The passengers included a young mainlander, identified only as Mr X, who boarded a plane wearing a mask disguising him as an elderly Caucasian, the court heard.
Mitchell said Chau admitted in an interview with police that he was acting under the instructions of his supervisor Alexander Wong, also known as Ah Doi, to allow stowaways to board flights. 'He just turned a blind eye,' the prosecutor said.
The court heard that the pair had been told they would receive HK$20,000 each for every passenger they helped.
But Chau told police that in the case of Mr X he received only a loan from a colleague identified as 'Ryan'.
Both Chan and Chau, who were arrested in January, had worked as ground service agents for Singapore Air Terminal Services under the supervision of Wong, and their duties included checking documents of passengers at the boarding gates inside the departure hall of Hong Kong International Airport, Mitchell said.
