Leaflet for Frontline Materials Testing Staff (PDF in Chinese only)

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Corruption Prevention Package for Construction Industry

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Unauthorized loan from contractors

A project engineer is employed by a chemical product manufacturer to supervise the engineering works performed by its contractors. Due to his job nature, he develops a close companionship with a contractor who has recently undertaken a gas tank repair project of the company.
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A project engineer is employed by a chemical product manufacturer to supervise the engineering works performed by its contractors.   Due to his job nature, he develops a close companionship with a contractor who has recently undertaken a gas tank repair project of the company.

Learning that the project engineer suffers from substantial loss in a recent stock investment, the contractor immediately offers to lend the project engineer $200,000 to help him overcome the financial difficulty.

When time comes for an inspection to be conducted for the gas tank repairing works, the contractor requests the project engineer to turn a blind eye to certain defects found in the finished works, saying that the defects can have little chance to pose a safety hazard.   He also reminds the project engineer of his generosity to him in the past.   The project engineer finds it difficult to require the contractor to rectify all the defects found in the works.

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Besides breaching the Rules of Conduct of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, the project engineer may put his employer's interest and public safety at stake if he compromises his objectivity in professional judgment and turns a blind eye to substandard works.

The project engineer should not accept a loan from persons who have business dealings with the company, placing him into a position of obligation that may lead to a conflict of interest.

The project engineer and the contractor may be liable to the charge of a corruption offence under the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (POBO) for offering and accepting a loan, an advantage under the POBO, in relation to the duties of the recipient's company without his employer's permission.

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Deceiving the company by subcontracting a job from a contractor

A software engineer recommended his company to award a software design job to an outside contractor, who then sub-contracted the job back to him.
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When receiving his company's instruction to design a computer software for a digital answering machine, a company's software engineer claimed that he was too busy to take up the job and recommended it to be contracted out to an outside software house which was owned solely by his former colleague.

The software house owner at first had no intention to undertake the job.  But the software engineer persuaded him to secure the job first and then sub-contract it back to the software engineer.  Using the software house as a disguise to deceive his own company, the software engineer could pocket $95,000 being 90% of the project fee while the rest would go to the owner.

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The software engineer contravened the Rules of Conduct of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, which require an engineer to offer complete loyalty to his employer and avoid engaging in business, investments or activities which conflict with the interests of his employer.

An employment or contract could be considered as an advantage.  As the software engineer's company neither approved the engineer to take up part-time job nor allowed him to accept any advantage in relation to his duties, the engineer had violated Section 9 of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance for assisting the software house to get the job and accepting the project fee in return.

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