A property management company senior operation assistant has been jailed six months by Kwun Tong Magistracy for accepting $100,000 in bribes from an interior design company director for conniving at unauthorised building works at Marina Cove.

Shiu Chung-yu, 36, of Synergis Management Services, was also ordered to pay $50,000 restitution to both Synergis and the Incorporated Owners of Marina Cove. He pleaded guilty to two counts of an agent accepting an advantage.

Synergis was contracted to manage Marina Cove, while Shiu was responsible for inspecting units under renovation to ensure no unauthorised building works were conducted.

In March 2008 Law Woon-tong, a director-cum-shareholder of MIB Interiors Design told Shiu MIB had secured a contract to renovate a unit in Marina Cove, including the extension of the main entrance into its public area.

Law offered Shiu $50,000 for not reporting the unauthorised works. Shiu agreed to make a fake measurement. He also agreed to ignore complaints against unauthorised building works conducted by MIB, and not to notify the incorporated owners or the Buildings Department of the unauthorised works.

Last November Law again offered Shiu $50,000 to connive at unauthorised works at another unit.

Law, 35, was earlier found guilty of two counts of offering an advantage to an agent and was jailed for a year.