An unemployed man has been jailed nine months by Eastern Magistracy for making a false report to the Independent Commission Against Corruption against two Customs officers.

Hung Chi-kwan, 36, was earlier found guilty of one count of making a false report to an ICAC officer.

On June 1, 2006, he rang an ICAC officer alleging he had been intercepted and searched by two Customs officers at Lo Wu Control Point upon his return from the Mainland.

Noting he was interrogated by the officers about the duty-not-paid cigarettes found on him, the defendant alleged he had given $1,500 to one of the officers who then let him go.

Investigations found the two officers never solicited or accepted money from the defendant.