Hong Kong: Woman will get 4-month jail time period for bribing major college principal to safe her son’s admission

In Hong Kong, a girl named Li Junping has been sentenced to 4 months in jail for attempting to bribe a faculty principal with HK$ 20,000 (equal to US $ 2548) to safe the admission of her 7-year-old son. As per studies, the 45-year-old lady had moved from mainland China to Hong Kong in 2022.

In Hong Kong’s Eastern Court, Principal Magistrate Ivy Chui Yee-mei denounced the try to corrupt a authorities instructional establishment. She stated that courtroom should punish any try to achieve an unfair benefit over those that reaped the rewards of their very own endeavours.

Principal Magistrate Ivy Chui Yee-mei acknowledged that the courtroom understands the need of the mom to make sure her son’s admission to an excellent college. Still, the bribery was a dishonest act and it tried to tarnish the morals of society.

Li Junping was charged by Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in January this yr for bribing the Principal.

Li Junping moved to Hong Kong from mainland China in June 2022, and shortly after she tried to get her then 6-year-old son enrolled within the Hennessy Road Government Primary School in Causeway Bay. The Education Bureau’s central allocation scheme didn’t grant her baby enrolment within the college she needed.

After the primary spherical of interviews, the kid was not known as for the subsequent section of the choice course of. Li Junping then reportedly approached Principal Phoebe Lo Pui-shan personally and requested for her son’s enrollment. But the Principal requested the mom to attend for the varsity’s official response.

On June 18, after 2 weeks of ready, the mom despatched a sealed envelope to Principal Phoebe Lo Pui-shan. When Phoebe Lo Pui-shan opened the envelope, she was shocked to see forex notes inside. A college worker then returned the envelope to Li Junping.

Shockingly, Li Junping didn’t relent and returned to the varsity 2 days later with HK$20,000 and once more tried to bribe the Principal. At that time, the Principal knowledgeable the police and Li Junping was arrested.

Later, the varsity additionally shared that the son’s utility had not been shortlisted for enrolment.

While defending her case, Li Junping claimed that her intention was to make a donation to the varsity if her son’s utility was authorized for enrollment. She later admitted that what she did was incorrect.

Li’s father-in-law, with whom Li and her son had been residing in Hong Kong, was reportedly so indignant by the incident that he made the mom and son vacate the home.

Li’s lawyer argued that she was new to Hong Kong and therefore was not conscious of native laws concerning college admissions.

As per a report in South China Morning Post, providing a bribe to a authorities worker is punishable by as much as 3 years in jail and HK$ 100,000 in penalty.