Hong Kong’s ICAC charges ex-professor over alleged bribe to admit master’s student

2026-03-17 - 06:45

Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency has charged a former university professor with allegedly accepting a HK$40,000 (US$5,100) bribe from a friend and offering red packets to colleagues to facilitate a student’s admission into a master’s degree programme. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) on Monday revealed that the friend of Liu Hongbin, 63, a former chair professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s (HKUST) department of ocean science, was also being...