A former Wellcome Supermarket regional manager has been charged for bribery and perversion offences.

Nguyen Van-to, 51, faces eight counts of accepting advantages and one of perverting the course of public justice.

No plea was taken at Eastern Magistracy today. Magistrate Li Wai-chi adjourned the case until December 20 for transfer to District Court, and remanded the defendant in custody.

The alleged offences took place between March and November. The eight bribery charges allege Nguyen accepted $42,000 from a shareholder-cum-director of a food company, as reward for helping get permission to sell roasted meat and flowers in Wellcome outlets.

Nguyen also allegedly requested that the shareholder make a document, falsely purporting that the latter had borrowed money from him, and requested he use it and give false evidence about the document at trials.