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Date:
28.11.86
Time:
8.30
12.30
Reporter: PMS
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a custodian sentence.
Only eight cases were given a custodian sentence
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but they all, except one, were suspended.
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MR CHEONG:
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I see. So that more or less proves the 5 point that the penalty in terms of monetary value that you impose
through administrative action not only would it increase the revenue
but
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CIR:
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Yes. The court only saw fit to impose custodian sentence on eight cases and all of them were given, except one, were given suspended sentence. And the average penalty they impose would be of the order of 100 to 120% or 150%. But take the
latest case which went before the court this month or last month, it was only 75% but it is not for me to judge that.
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MR CHEONG:
Yes. Now the Investigation Unit establish-
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ment is how many people you have?
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CIR:
We have on the establishment a total of
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115, including those actually stationed in the section and also some of the staff in the headquarters as well.
That is the current
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establishment.
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MR CHEONG:
Are they fully trained accountants and
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trained into doing the investigative work?
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CIR:
of this number, 70 are trained or professional;
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officers with accounting background and they are trained to deal with
this type of work.
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MR CHEONG:
32 Investigation Unit yielded HK$140.4 million to the Revenue?
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CIR:
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Yes, we collected back tax and penalty of something of the order of HK$150 million and that represent more or less over half of the cost of the department.
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And in the year 1985-86 alone, your
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