An unemployed man has been convicted of making a false report to the Independent Commission Against Corruption against two Customs officers for alleged corruption.

Hung Chi-kwan, 36, was found guilty at Eastern Magistracy of one count of making a false report to an ICAC officer. Magistrate William Ng adjourned sentencing to November 26 pending psychiatric and psychological reports.

On June 1, 2006, the defendant rang an ICAC officer alleging he had been stopped and searched by two Customs officers at Lo Wu checkpoint upon his return from the Mainland.

Noting he was interrogated by the officers about the duty-not-paid cigarettes found on him, the defendant alleged that he had given $1,500 to one of the officers who then let him go.

Investigations found the two officers never solicited or accepted money from the defendant.