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A Kwun Tong District Council member and a youth group chief have been charged for making false expenses claims.
Councillor Law Chun-ngai, 44, and Friends of the Youth chairman Thomas Tang, 45, will appear in Kwun Tong Magistracy June 30 for plea. They have been released on bail.
Law faces one count of false accounting, which alleges he furnished four false quotations to the council on November 29, 2001, in an application for reimbursement of expenses incurred in an activity organised by the Shun Lee Community Development Association.
Tang faces six false accounting charges. They allege that between January 2002 and January 2003, Tang, in furnishing information for applications for reimbursement of expenses in connection with various activities organised by his youth group and the Ping Tin Residents Association, dishonestly produced 19 false quotations.
The council issued balance payments totalling $11,240, $39,650 and $15,800 to the two respective associations and the youth group. Organisation of most of the activities was eventually contracted to companies owned or controlled by Tang.
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