Offering Gifts to Public Servants while Having Business Dealings
A public body regularly places its surplus fund into bank deposits and/or investments. A finance manager of the public body (i.e. public servant) is responsible for inviting banks to submit quotations including proposals for placement of fixed deposits and/or investments. During a quotation exercise, a bank manager who has submitted proposals to the public body sends mooncake coupons to the finance manager as gifts during Mid-Autumn Festival.Offences Committed
As the bank manager offers the advantage (i.e. gifts such as mooncake coupons) to the finance manager while having dealings with the public body, he may contravene Section 8(2) of the POBO.
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