Hong Kong Airport Authority ex-general manager, wife of former executive among 8 charged over HK$4.3 million in bribes for third runway project
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Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency has charged a former Airport Authority general manager, the wife of another ex-senior employee and six others in connection with a HK$4.3 million bribery case related to multimillion-dollar contracts for the third runway mega project.
Three of the defendants are former general manager Yin Kek-kiong, ex-principal manager Ricky Lee Wing-fai and his wife Diana Chan Kok-tan.
Lee, 47, was earlier charged with a 65-year-old owner of an engineering subcontracting firm. Lee’s wife has now been charged with helping to handle the alleged bribes.
The other defendants include senior executives of two subcontractors and operators of a supplier for the airport’s much publicised third runway project.
They were released on bail and are expected to appear at Eastern Magistrates’ Courts on Friday.
The alleged offences took place between January 2017 and August 2022.
