Two men jailed for conspiracy to defraud
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The Eastern Magistrate's Courts today (June 2) sentenced two men to 12 months' imprisonment respectively for conspiracy to defraud.

The court heard that a bank staff member received an application for personal loan in the sum of $250,000 from a man in early March 2009. The bank later made a report to Police after they suspected the income proof provided by the man might be false.

Commercial Crime Bureau (CCB) took up the case for investigation and arrested Chan Ka-chun, aged 34, when he turned up and provided a forged identity card to collect the cheque in the bank's office on May 24, 2009.

After extensive investigation, CCB officers arrested Wong Siu-lung, aged 44, who was believed to have instructed Chan to commit the offence.

The two were subsequently charged with conspiracy to defraud while Chan was additionally charged with using a forged identity card and sentences were handed down today.

Police Report No.7
Issued by PPRB
End/Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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