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Source : Ming Pao
translated by little bee @ http://asianfanatics.net/
ICAC arrested 5 persons, including TVB Co. LTD's general manager Stephen Chan, as they are involved in a corruption case.
ICAC stated that this time action made them put 5 people under arrest, among them were 4 staff members of a Television station suspected of corruption charges. And the last one is a director of an advertising company.
Mr. Tsang Sing Ming, assistant manager of TVB's external affairs department confirmed that ICAC was investigating on a corruption case and 4 members of TVB got involved, the four's positions have been suspended already and they will help ICAC with the investigation.
He stated that from his understanding, the 4 are respectively TVB's GM Stephen Chan, Sales and Marketing department bussiness development director 陳永孫 Chan Rong Suen, Artist section actress Nin Jing (assistant in the TV show "Be My Guest") and Artist section producer Ronald Chin 錢國偉. Ronald Chin is the producer of the TV show "Beautiful Cooking". The last person involved is an advertising company's director, he is also Chan's personal assistant.
He says that due to the secrecy that the ICAC investigation has to stay under, they still don't know the details of the case. He stresses that it definitly will not have any influence over TVB functionning normally.
ICAC officers arrested Stephen Chan at around 4 PM, then coming back to TVB city to investigate. Many reporters surrounded the car in order to get interviews, but because the car''s curtains were put on, it was impossible to see the people in the car. 5 minutes after it parked, Stephen Chan opened the door coming out of it wearing a grey jacket, many journalists rushed to take pictures, the whole situation getting messy. Stephen reminded the journalists to be careful and shoed the elevator to the ICAC agents. In the end ICAC agents brought Stephen back to the office for investigation purposes.
Addition from llwy12 @asianfanatics:
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Also yesterday, former TVB artist Vincy Wong, who was rumored to be in discordance with Stephen Chan due to contract negotiations that went sour, took the opportunity to express his animosity toward his former employer: “A friend texted me to say that ‘my friend’ was arrested – I need to clarify that Stephen Chan is not my friend….after I left TVB, we were no longer in communications with each other. In terms of the current situation, right now there are ‘arrests’, but ICAC frequently arrests people publicly but then afterwards nothing really happens and the situation goes away, so it’s really too early to make any judgments at this time. All I can say is that Stephen Chan has been in high management positions before and has a wealth of experience dealing with the media, it should be rare for him to make mistakes like this.” With his comments, Vincy admitted his dissatisfaction with Stephen; he also revealed that earlier someone had approached him about returning to TVB and even told him that he does not have to worry about his ‘disputes’ with a certain person – now he understands what that person meant.
