Four former hotel staff have been jailed two months for accepting bribes for referring guests to a tailor shop, and ordered to pay $1,000 each in restitution to the hotel.

Wong Hing-cheung, 60, Yeung Wing-wai, 32, both former Marco Polo Gateway guest relations agents, and Cheng Chi-chiu, 59, and Leung Siu-ho, 45, both former bell captains of the hotel, pleaded guilty at Kowloon City Magistracy to one count of conspiring to accept advantages.

Between mid-2005 and January 2007 they referred hotel guests to patronise Baron Kay's Tailor at the instigation of their supervisor and they all shared illegal commissions from the shop. The defendants accepted about $1,000 each.

Their supervisor Pan Wai-man, 43, was yesterday jailed three months and ordered to pay $1,000 in restitution to the hotel.