Court jails professor who took HK$40,000 bribe to admit unqualified student

South China Morning Post

A Hong Kong court has sentenced a former university professor to 20 weeks in jail after he accepted a HK$40,000 (US$5,110) bribe and offered two colleagues red packets to help an unqualified student gain admission to a postgraduate programme, with the judge condemning his actions for tarnishing the city’s reputation.
Liu Hongbin was sentenced on Thursday for abusing his authority as chair professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s (HKUST) department of ocean science to...

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Court jails professor who took HK$40,000 bribe to admit unqualified student

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