Shuttle bus company operations assistant charged by ICAC admits accepting $30,000 bribes over driver employment

A then operations assistant of a shuttle bus company, charged by the ICAC, today (April 30) pleaded guilty at the Tuen Mun Magistrates’ Courts to accepting bribes totalling over $32,000 in relation to the employment of a driver.

Chow King-lung, 45, then operations assistant of a subsidiary of Great Leader Bus Holdings Limited (Great Leader Bus), pleaded guilty to five counts of agent accepting an advantage, contrary to section 9(1)(a) of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (POBO). The prosecution offered no evidence to another bribery charge against him.

Magistrate Mr David Chum Yau-fong adjourned the case to May 18 for sentencing, pending the defendant’s background report, and remanded him in custody of the Correctional Services Department. The court also ordered the defendant to make restitution of about $32,000, equivalent to the bribe amount involved, to his former employer, a subsidiary of Great Leader Bus.

At the material time, the defendant was responsible for employing drivers and managing transportation service operations for Great Leader Bus and its subsidiaries, including a shuttle bus route providing services to government staff. Great Leader Bus did not allow its staff to accept any advantages from drivers for their employment with Great Leader Bus and its subsidiaries.

The court heard that in the five consecutive months between September 2024 and January 2025, the defendant accepted bribes totalling over $32,000 from a driver for employing her on the abovementioned route.

The ICAC investigation arose from a corruption complaint. Enquiries revealed that the defendant had solicited monthly bribes ranging from about $3,400 to $7,500 from the driver. The driver would not have been employed on the route had she not paid these bribes.

Great Leader Bus rendered full assistance to the ICAC during its investigation into the case.

The prosecution was today represented by ICAC officer Cody Chung.