Ex-BAT Exec Gets 3 Year Prison Term (fwd)

[Robert Weissman <rob@essential.org>]

                          June 25, 1998
 Hong Kong Tobacco Exec Gets
 3-Year Jail Term For Bribery-

 Dow Jones Newswires

 HONG KONG (AP)--_ A former tobacco executive
 accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes was given
 a jail term of more than three years, Hong Kong's top
 graft-fighting body said Thursday.

 A high court judge sentenced Jerry Lui Kin-hong, 44, to
 three years and eight months in jail and fined him
 500,000 Hong Kong dollars (HK$), a statement from
 the Independent Commission Against Corruption said.

 The judge also ordered Lui to pay HK$011 million in
 prosecution costs and return HK$10 million to his
 former employers, the statement said.

 Lui was found guilty earlier this month of accepting
 HK$33 million in cash and unsecured loans between
 June 1988 and December 1993 when he was an
 executive at British-American Tobacco Co. (HK) Ltd.
 and its subsidiary Brown and Williamson Tobacco
 Corp.

 He conspired with executives of several local companies
 to supply them with cigarettes from British-American
 Tobacco free of government-imposed taxes, the court
 found.





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