A top anti-triad cop has been charged with taking HK$780,000 (US$100,000) in bribes and accepting sexual services from the operators of private nightclubs in Wan Chai to pass information about probes into their establishments.
Police superintendent Ng Wai-hon, 53, was charged yesterday by Hong Kong’s anti-graft agency alongside Luen Kei-cheung, 46, and Tse Hoi-kin, 37, the operators of Wan Chai clubs MB Club Mont Busa (MBC) and Golden, with whom the senior policeman is accused of colluding.
A statement from the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), says the trio face a combined total of eight charges, related to bribery of a public servant and misconduct in public office.
Ng, of the Organised Crime and Triad Bureau (OCTB), was among several people arrested by ICAC in January in relation to bribery offenses.
The commission alleges he took payments on six separate occasions between November 2015 and January of this year totaling HK$780,000.
He also allegedly accepted the free sexual services of a woman provided by one of his co-accused in January this year.
In return, it’s alleged Ng passed on information about police investigations into the clubs and provided advice on how to evade enforcement for alleged unlawful activities done on the premises.
The trio, who have been released on bail, are due in court today for a mention hearing.
