5 ParknShop and contractor staff who forged pay claims plead guilty to fraud

Five former employees of Hong Kong supermarket chain ParknShop and its contractors have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud by falsifying workers’ attendance records to cheat the retail giant of HK$3.2 million (US$408,000).The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) said on Friday that an investigation revealed that the former supermarket employees colluded with contractor staff over two years to deceive ParknShop by falsifying attendance records for 13 warehouse workers who were not on shift at the chain’s distribution centre.The defendants – Lau Kin-pong, 44, then a senior supervisor at ParknShop’s eCommercial Distribution Centre, Tai Kin-man, 43, then assistant manager of Earnward Warehouse, and three former warehouse workers employed by Logistics Network Management, Wong Wai-fung, 27, Wong Pak-kan, 28, and Lau Tsz-pan, 28 – all pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud at the District Court on Friday.