Hong Kong ICAC sentences a secretarial company proprietor for offering a HK$6,800 bribe to a bank employee to assist clients referred by her in opening bank accounts

A company secretarial proprietor was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and fined HK$2,000 after pleading guilty to offering a HK$6,800 bribe to a Bank of China (Hong Kong) employee for assisting referred clients in opening bank accounts. The bank employee refused the bribe and reported the incident, with ICAC noting that BOCHK assisted the investigation and that the accounts opened in the case had fulfilled…