The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) today (29 December) indicted a Correctional Assistant II of the Correctional Services Department for allegedly accepting bribes totalling more than $31,<> for bringing a number of unauthorised items, including two pairs of glasses, non-designated brand cigarettes, lighters, notebooks and stationery, into Lai Chi Kok Detention Centre to a prisoner, and the prisoner and his sister were charged with bribery. The case will be arraigned at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court on Wednesday (<>st). The second-degree correctional assistant involved in the case and the defendant suspected of bribery have been granted bail by the ICAC pending their plea and the prisoners involved in the receipt of unauthorized items will be brought to court for trial on the same day.


Lai Chi Kok Detention Center. (Profile picture)

The defendant, Kim Wing-kin (34), a second-class correctional assistant in the Correctional Services Department, was charged with three counts of accepting an advantage from a public official, contrary to section 4(2)(a) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance. The defendant, Wu Tianwen (35), a prisoner of Lai Chi Kok Detention Centre, and his sister Wu Lok Lan (31), were charged with three counts of providing benefits to a public official, contrary to section 4(1)(a) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance.

Inmate families were directed at bribing correctional assistants

Jin Wing-qin, Correctional Assistant II of the Correctional Services Department, was stationed at the Lai Chi Kok Detention Centre at the time of the crime, while Wu Tianwen was remanded in custody there. Officers and prisoners of the Correctional Services Department are required to comply with the Prisons Ordinance and the Prison Rules. The ordinances and rules prohibit CSD officers from passing unauthorised objects to prisoners and from communicating with prisoners or their relatives and friends without proper authority.

The charges allege that between May and August 2022, Kim Wing-kin allegedly accepted three bribes totalling $5,8 to introduce unauthorised items into the Lychee Detention Centre to prisoner Wu Tianwen, while Wu Tianwen and his sister Wu Lok Lan allegedly provided the above bribes to Kim Yongqin.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) today (29 December) indicted a Correctional Assistant II of the Correctional Services Department for allegedly accepting bribes totalling more than $<>,<> to introduce a number of unauthorised items into Lai Chi Kok Detention Centre to a prisoner. (Profile picture)

The transferred items included two pairs of glasses and stationery

Upon receiving a corruption complaint referred by the Correctional Services Department, the ICAC launched an investigation and found that Kim Wing-kin had repeatedly communicated with Ng Lok Lok Lok Chu without proper authority, receiving two pairs of glasses, cigarettes of non-designated brands of the CSD, lighters, notebooks and stationery from the other party, and then carrying them into the Lychee Dropper Detention Centre and handing them over to Ng Tianwen. The items were unauthorised and were not approved by visitors approved by the Correctional Services Department or sold items that prisoners could purchase.

The CSD provides full assistance during ICAC investigations.

The ICAC has been reminding law enforcement officers through publicity and education to maintain a high level of integrity, abide by laws and regulations and refrain from engaging in corruption or illegal business in the performance of their duties.

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