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Accounting professionals play a crucial role not only in the financial and risk management of a company, but also corporate governance and the overall development of organisation. Moreover, they have an overriding duty to protect the public interest. Given this unique role, professional accountants must uphold the highest standard of professional ethics and stay vigilant to various ethical risks and challenges.

The Hong Kong Business Ethics Development Centre offers free anti-corruption and ethics trainings to help accounting practitioners stay alert to corruption risks and uphold high integrity standards. We also provide free services and useful resources to help accounting firms guard against corruption and foster an ethical culture.

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The demand of medical and healthcare products and services has definitely increased in recent years, and the quality of these products and services remains a key concern of the public. Practitioners of the medical and healthcare industries should maintain their high ethical standard for ensuring service and product quality, as well as sustaining their goodwill, trust of the public and competitive edge in the market.

The Hong Kong Business Ethics Development Centre offers free anti-corruption and ethics trainings to help practitioners stay alert to corruption risks and uphold high integrity standards. We also provide free services and useful resources to help professions and companies guard against corruption and foster an ethical culture.

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Two then bank employees charged by ICAC with bribery over account opening jailed for 10 months and six months

Two then bank employees, among five individuals charged by the ICAC, were today (April 14) sentenced to imprisonment of 10 months and six months at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts for conspiring to accept bribes to assis...

Middleman charged by ICAC for offering $400,000 in bribes to accounting firm staff over fabric manufacturer’s listing

The ICAC today (April 14) charged a middleman for allegedly offering cash bribes totalling $400,000 to two then managers of an accounting firm in 2010 to assist a fabric manufacturer in its listing in Hong Kong. The ICAC...

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Two months’ jail for electrician charged by ICAC for defrauding EMSD over registered electrical worker certificate by falsifying work experience

Following a corruption investigation which revealed that certain applicants had illegally applied for certificates of registration as electrical workers and misled the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD)...

Estate agent charged by ICAC for bribe solicitation over subordinate’s role in $100m property transaction

An estate agent was charged by the ICAC yesterday (April 8) for allegedly soliciting a bribe of over $63,000 from a subordinate for making a false representation regarding the latter’s role in procuring the sale and purc...

Ex-EPD landfill contractor staff among three admit roles in construction waste disposal bribery and fraud case

An ICAC investigation revealed that staff of a contractor for the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) allegedly accepted advantages from employees of a waste disposal company to assist in unloading construction was...

Joint Seminars with Professional Bodies (April 2026)

Joint Collaboration
Integrity Sharing

The Hong Kong Business Ethics Development Centre (HKBEDC) has been jointly organising thematic seminars with various professional bodies and trade organisations to promote good governance and professional ethics in the b...

Electrician charged by ICAC admits defrauding EMSD over registered electrical worker certificate by falsifying work experience

ICAC and Police joint operation against corrupt triad infiltration in building maintenance, arrest 42

The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has received corruption complaints from the public since mid-2025, alleging that a project consultancy firm had assisted construction contractors to secure building ma...

Tenant charged by ICAC for bribing estate agent to avoid paying default tenancy compensation gets four and a half months’ jail

A tenant of a residential flat, charged by the ICAC, was today (March 25) sentenced to four and a half months’ imprisonment at the Shatin Magistrates’ Courts for offering a bribe of $1,000 to an estate agent and requesti...

Five linked to three housing estates charged in ICAC’s ongoing crackdown on corruption in grand renovation projects

The ICAC, in its ongoing effort to crack down on corruption in grand renovation projects, charged five individuals in three cases on Monday (March 23) for allegedly offering bribes to members of incorporated owners (IO)...

Four employees of former TD car testing centre charged by ICAC for fraud over falsified annual examination results

The ICAC today (March 24) charged four employees of a former designated car testing centre (DCTC) of the Transport Department (TD) for allegedly assisting a number of private cars to pass the annual vehicle examination b...

Three then bank employees charged by ICAC admit bribery over account opening

Two then bank employees, among five individuals charged by the ICAC, today (March 19) admitted at the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts that they had conspired together to accept bribes for assisting clients of the intermediar...

Then chairman of listed company charged by ICAC guilty of $2.4m fraud by inflating tax in saloon purchase

A then chairman of a listed company, charged by the ICAC, was today (March 17) convicted at the District Court of deceiving the company into paying about $2.4 million by inflating the first registration tax of a saloon d...

Property vendors charged by ICAC for offering bribe to estate agent for waiving agency commission

Two property vendors were charged by the ICAC yesterday (March 11) for allegedly offering $30,000 in bribe to an estate agent for waiving $155,000 in an agency commission in relation to the sale of a residential property...

Joint press release: ICAC and SFC joint operation in alleged insider dealings and corruption involving senior executives of licensed corporations

The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) conducted a joint operation codenamed “Fuse” on March 10 and 11 targeting insider dealing and involving corruption. Sen...

Applications Open for “The 15th Junzi Corporation Awards”

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The Hong Kong Business Ethics Development Centre (HKBEDC) strives to promote professional and business ethics across various sectors in collaboration with different stakeholders. We are delighted to serve as one of the s...

Shuttle bus company operations assistant charged by ICAC for soliciting and accepting $40,000 bribes over driver employment

An operations assistant of a shuttle bus company was charged by the ICAC yesterday (March 10) for allegedly soliciting and accepting bribes totalling over $40,000 over the employment of a driver. Chow King-lung, 45, oper...

Tenant charged by ICAC guilty of bribing estate agent to avoid paying default tenancy compensation

A tenant of a residential flat, charged by the ICAC, was today (March 10) convicted at the Shatin Magistrates’ Courts of offering a bribe of $1,000 to an estate agent and requesting the latter to conceal from an estate a...

Joint Seminars with Professional Bodies (March 2026)

Joint Collaboration
Integrity Sharing

Vice president of secretarial company charged by ICAC with bribery for diverting business to rival

A former vice president of a secretarial company was charged by the ICAC today (February 23) for allegedly accepting bribes totalling over $67,000 for secretly diverting three clients to a business rival. So Shuk-yi Bett...

Then bank employee charged by ICAC in court for allegedly accepting bribes from intermediary over accounts opening

A then bank employee appeared in the Eastern Magistrates’ Courts this morning (February 20) for mention after being charged by the ICAC for allegedly accepting RMB500 in bribe for each client referred by an intermediary...

Twenty-two arrested by ICAC for suspected corruption in seven grand renovation projects preventing award of contracts worth over $100 million

The ICAC mounted a law enforcement operation codenamed “Lion Rock” this week (February 9 and 10) to combat suspected corruption and other related illicit activities involving the grand renovation projects of seven housin...

Duo plead guilty as ICAC graft probe reveals pharmaceutical wholesaler $1.1m service fees fraud

A then general manager of a pharmaceutical wholesaler charged by the ICAC today (February 10) pleaded guilty at the District Court to deceiving the wholesaler into paying service fees totalling about $1.1 million by maki...

Then bank employee charged for alleged breach of POBO by disclosing ICAC probe into family member

A then bank employee was charged by the ICAC last Friday (January 30) for allegedly breaching the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (POBO) by disclosing an ICAC investigation to a family member, having learned that he was a subject of an on-going ICAC investigation.