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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 husband-and-wife team were given suspended sentences for submitting false information in a Hongkong Post tendering bid. Photo: Roy Issa

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).
The husband-and-wife heads of a tech company were given suspended jail sentences after they admitted charges of obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception over a contract with Hongkong Post. Photo: Jelly Tse
The husband-and-wife heads of a tech company were given suspended jail sentences after they admitted charges of obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception over a contract with Hongkong Post. Photo: Jelly Tse

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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