許仕仁被控8罪 郭氏兄弟遭起訴行賄

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【明報專訊】香港廉署周五落案控告5名人士，包括前政務司司長許仕仁、新地聯席主席郭炳聯和郭炳江、執行董事陳鉅源及港交所前高層關雄生，案件下午在東區裁判法院提堂。

郭氏兄弟各1000萬元保釋

根據廉署提供給法院的文件顯示，5人合共涉及8項控罪，包括身為公職人員行為失當、串謀向公職人員提供利益等，其中許仕仁涉及全部8項控罪，而郭炳聯和郭炳江則主要是涉及向公職人員提供利益。

郭炳聯和郭炳江各獲准以1000萬元(港幣，下同)保釋，許仕仁和陳鉅源各獲准以50萬元保釋，關雄生則以20萬元保釋，案件押後至10月中。

事件涉及許仕仁居住的禮頓山中層雙連單位，為新地名下物業，消息指他租住上述單位涉利益衝突，並懷疑收取新地現金加支票逾3000萬元，以透露政府機密資料予私人機構。涉案人士早前多次返廉署報到及續保，但一直未遭落案檢控。

許仕仁是廉署歷來起訴最高級的前政府官員；郭炳聯和郭炳江則是歷來市值最大的上市公司負責人捲入貪污醜聞的案件，而事件令到新地這間藍籌地產公司，繼08年家族糾紛之後，面臨另一次重大危機。

新鴻基地產(0016)及系內的新意網(8008)、數碼通(0315)先後停牌。停牌前，新地報95.45元，升0.1％；新意網報1.44元，跌近0.7％；數碼通報15.9元，跌1％。

其餘被捕4人 暫不起訴

消息指，至於同案還有4人被捕，包括陳鉅源的3名親人及郭氏兄弟的大哥，現階段不會被起訴。案中9名被捕人士早上向廉署報到，其中許仕仁的座駕於周五早上8時許抵達廉署的總部，但由於車窗被遮掩，未知許仕仁是否在車內。

9時許，郭炳江在資深大律師駱應淦陪同下，乘坐私家車抵達，大批記者包圍拍攝。在近10時，郭炳聯亦抵達，其後新地執董陳鉅源亦抵達廉署。郭氏兄弟其後分別離開，而許仕仁坐駕駛離廉署時，車窗被遮掩無法拍攝，其後車尾門被打開，見到許仕仁背影。

前政務司長許仕仁涉貪污案，新鴻基地產2位聯席主席兼董事總經理郭炳江（右）及郭炳聯（中）周五早上乘車抵廉署報到，左為新地執行董事陳鉅源。

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Raymond Kwok (C), co-chairman of Hong Kong developer Sun Hung Kai Properties, leaves the Eastern Law Court in Hong Kong July 13, 2012. Thomas and Raymond Kwok, the billionaire co-chairmen of Sun Hung Kai Properties, and Rafael Hui, Hong Kong's former No.2 public official, were charged Friday in a bribery investigation surrounding Asia's largest developer.Photograph by: Tyrone Siu, REUTERS

HONG KONG - Billionaire brothers Thomas and Raymond Kwok and three other people have been charged in a graft case alleging that the prominent developers gave bribes in exchange for lucrative information on pending land sales.


Also charged Friday by Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption are former Chief Secretary Rafael Hui, a former senior officer of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, and an executive director of Sun Hung Kai Properties, which the Kwok brothers co-chair.

Hui is alleged to have provided land sale information to the Kwoks between 2005 and 2007. The three were arrested in March, and they were to appear in court Friday to answer charges of bribery and misconduct in public office.

Trading in Sun Hung Kai shares was suspended shortly after the Hong Kong stock market opened Friday.

In Metro Vancouver, the Kwoks' subsidiary Aspac Developments Ltd. is currently developing River Green, a luxury riverfront community on lands adjacent to the Richmond Olympic speedskating oval for which the firm paid $141 million to purchase in 2008.
That project follows from Aspac's redevelopment of Coal Harbour, which saw the company build five towers in the Waterfront Park development between 1993 and 2003 and then the three-tower Harbour Green development that includes some of the most luxurious condominiums in the city.

And the company also built The Westbrook, a tower project at the University of B.C.

Aspac was also a significant corporate sponsor of the British Columbia-Canada House pavillion at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Thomas Kwok (R) and his younger brother Raymond Kwok, both Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Sun Hung Kai Properties, listen to a question during a news conference announcing the company's interim results in Hong Kong in this March 11, 2009 file photo. Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption on March 29, 2012 arrested two senior company executives, identified in the media as Sun Hung Kai Properties  tycoon brothers Raymond and Thomas Kwok, for suspected corruption.Photograph by: Bobby Yip/Files, Reuters

Rafael Hui, Hong Kong's former No.2 official, arrives at the the Eastern Law Court in Hong Kong July 13, 2012. Thomas and Raymond Kwok, the billionaire co-chairmen of Sun Hung Kai Properties, and Hui were charged Friday in a bribery investigation surrounding Asia's largest developer.Photograph by: Tyrone Siu, REUTERS

Sun Hung Kai Properties Executive Director Thomas Chan Kui-yuen leaves the Eastern Law Court in Hong Kong July 13, 2012. Thomas Kwok and Raymond Kwok, the billionaire co-chairmen of Sun Hung Kai Properties, and Rafael Hui, Hong Kong's former No.2 public official, were charged Friday in a bribery investigation surrounding Asia's largest developer. Thomas Chan, the Sun Hung Kai board member in charge of land purchases, was one of the two others charged by the city's Independent Commission Against Corruption.





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