The crackdown began on May 3. Four suspected operators and five keepers of four vice establishments and 11 of their associates were also arrested. 

Ten women, including three Vietnamese passport holders and seven Mainland two-way permit holders, were also arrested at three vice establishments for suspected illegal prostitution activities and breach of conditions of stay in Hong Kong.

The ICAC said the two Police sergeants are alleged to have accepted monthly payments from a number of operators and keepers of vice establishments in the district in return for providing information about possible police enforcement action.

Investigations are continuing.

Former DC member guilty of deceiving funds

Meanwhile, a former Shatin District Council member has been convicted of making false claims of expenditures totalling about $75,000 from the council.

Liu Huan-yee, 44, was found guilty of eight counts of false accounting at the Shatin Magistracy yesterday.

The court heard that Liu, in furnishing information for applications for reimbursement of expenses incurred at a number of activities organised by a working group of the council, had dishonestly produced to the council and the Environmental Campaign Committee false accounting documents.

Such documents purportedly showed that the expenses stated therein had been incurred at the relevant activities and paid for by the working group.

ICAC's investigations revealed that the expenses stated in such documents had been inflated by about $75,000 in total.