Senior Hong Kong policeman and two nightclub bosses plead guilty in HK$570,000 vice and corruption case
Superintendent Ng Wai-hon, 54, advised operators on how to evade investigations and inspections
A senior police officer and the operators of two nightclubs in Hong Kong’s notorious red light district have admitted to being part of a bribery, vice and corruption racket involving payments of more than half a million dollars.
Police superintendent Ng Wai-hon, 54, and nightclub boss Luen Kei-cheung, 47, who runs the private MB Club Mont Busa (MBC) and Golden, appeared in the District Court on Thursday and pleaded guilty to a joint charge of conspiracy for a public servant to accept advantages, contrary to the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance and the Crimes Ordinance.
Ng, Luen and fellow MBC and Golden operator Tse Hoi-kin, 38, all of whom had earlier been charged by the city’s Independent Commission Against Corruption, admitted that they had respectively accepted and offered bribes of HK$570,000 (US$73,000) in total in relation to the operation of the private clubs in Wan Chai.
Tse pleaded guilty to an alternative charge of aiding and abetting another person to offer an advantage to a public servant.
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Deputy Judge Li Chi-ho ordered that the remaining charges against the three be left on court file.
The judge adjourned the case to October 18 for sentencing and remanded the defendants in the custody of the Correctional Services Department.
