Read the full judgment text of CACC 001123/1979 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 11 March 1980.
1. In this case, the Appellant, an electrical contractor appeals against concurrent sentences totalling 2 years' imprisonment in respect of charges of conspiracy to defraud the Hong Kong Telephone Company. The frauds were effected in conjunction with employees of that company who are named as co-conspirators, and took the form of the submission of tenders by the Appellant for work to be done for the company; those tenders were inflated by the co-conspirator into whose hands they first habitually