A senior hotel chef has been convicted of accepting advantages in the form of free prostitution services for writing favourable appraisal reports for his subordinate.

Hung Sau-chi, 58, was found guilty of one count of agent accepting an advantage at Eastern Magistracy. Magistrate Winston Leung adjourned sentencing to April 24, pending probation and community service order reports. The defendant was granted $40,000 bail.

Hung was a senior chef in charge of the Peninsula Hotel's staff restaurant. Between January 1996 and May 2004, Wong Chi-ho, a senior cook under Hung's supervision, paid for prostitution services, calculated at about $300 a week, for Hung. In return, Hung would treat Wong favourably in preparing appraisal reports and the staff roster. Hung would also not cause any trouble to the subordinate in relation to his duties.

Wong earlier pleaded guilty to one count of offering an advantage to an agent, and will be sentenced on the same day as Hung.