Eight retired hawker control officers who gave preferential treatment to 36 candidates in a 2019 recruitment exercise have been spared jail in Hong Kong, with a judge saying the case revealed their department’s long-standing culture of favouritism.
The District Court on Tuesday sentenced the eight former Food and Environmental Hygiene Department staff to between 150 and 240 hours of community service after considering their commendable track records, the one-off nature of the offence and the…
