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Hong Kong husband-and-wife given suspended sentences after admitting they gave false information in tender for Hongkong Post work
- Judge tells couple offences were serious but suspends sentences because of mitigating factors
- Court hears that Hongkong Post tendering process was headed by woman’s cousin, then an assistant general manager with the service
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A Hong Kong husband-and-wife team who won a HK$4.2 million (US$536,450) contract with the postal service through deception were given suspended sentences by a judge on Friday.
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Chow Oi-yee, 48, a shareholder and chief executive director of Intimex Business Solutions, was given a six-month sentence, suspended for two years, at the District Court. Her husband, Cheung Kin-hang, 48, the former chief operating officer at Intimex, was given an eight-month jail term, also suspended for two years.
Chow is a cousin of Cheng Chun-kit, a former assistant general manager at Hongkong Post.
She and her husband were charged in December 2021 after an investigation by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).
Judge Merinda Chow Yin-chu said the couple had put in a fraudulent bid and the offences were serious. But she said she had considered their guilty pleas and other mitigating matters when she suspended the jail terms.
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