23 Aug 2025明報#7204
網絡巡邏輔數碼法證 新小組助入境處放蛇拘黑工
The Immigration Department established a Cybercrime and Forensic Investigation Group in 2021. Through cyber patrols, the group provides intelligence to frontline officers and uses digital forensic techniques—including the recovery and analysis of electronic data from devices such as smartphones and laptops—to assist in gathering and presenting evidence, strengthening efforts against online immigration-related offences including sham marriages, the sale and purchase of forged documents, and arrangements involving illegal workers. In response to the illegal-worker issue that has attracted attention recently, the group assisted a task force in carrying out six undercover operations over the past year, resulting in the arrest of 21 mainland illegal workers who had come to Hong Kong to work in various sectors, including cleaning, purchasing-agent services, photography and tour guiding.
Six undercover operations in one year result in 21 arrests
Wu Hoi-leung, Assistant Principal Immigration Officer (Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Division) of the Immigration Department, said criminals in recent years had used different electronic devices to communicate and attempted to organise illegal activities on online platforms, including misleading or inducing members of the public to hire illegal workers, arranging sham marriages and trading forged documents. The department therefore established the Cybercrime and Forensic Investigation Group to strengthen efforts against related online immigration offences.
入境處2021年成立網絡罪案及法證調查小組，透過網絡巡邏為前線提供情報，又以數碼法證技術，包括修復及分析智能電話、手提電腦等電子裝置的電子數據，協助蒐證及舉證，加強打擊假結婚、買賣假證件、安排非法勞工等網上入境罪行。就近日引起關注的非法勞工問題，小組過去一年協助特遣隊作6次「放蛇」行動，拘捕21名來港從事清潔、代購、攝影、導遊等不同行業的內地非法勞工。
一年6放蛇拘21人
入境處助理首席入境事務主任（反恐及情報科）吳海量稱，近年犯罪分子利用不同電子裝置溝通，在網上平台試圖組織非法活動，包括誤導或誘使市民聘用非法勞工、假結婚、買賣假證等，故該處成立網絡罪案及法證調查小組，加強打擊相關網上入境罪行。
22 Aug 2025集誌社#7200
公僕水患｜比對新舊標書 棄「雙軌」評分 入閘即價低者得
The Government was cheated out of more than $50 million in a water procurement case. Director of Government Logistics Chan Ka-wah responded yesterday, describing the incident as a “fraud case” and saying the existing procurement mechanism was inadequate and lacked sufficient capacity to block “bidders intent on committing fraud”. This was the first time a mainland Chinese drinking-water brand had won a government tender. The successful supplier, “Xin Ding Xin”, had no previous record of supplying drinking water; its director had a history of debt, and it had previously been involved in a “fraud” lawsuit. The public questioned how the company was able to win the tender and whether the Government had relaxed its bidding requirements.
The Collective asked the Treasury Bureau about the matter and obtained the 2023 and 2025 tender documents for drinking water. A comparison of the documents found that, despite the longer contract period and the larger volume of goods and number of delivery locations involved, the “dual-track” scoring system previously used—under which technical and price factors each accounted for half of the score—had been scrapped in the latest tender. Suppliers only had to meet the basic specifications to qualify, after which the contract would go to the bidder offering the lowest price per litre. The Treasury Bureau said in response that the specifications for bottled water were simple and clear, and that the required technical specifications and delivery arrangements had been listed as mandatory requirements in the tender documents. It stressed that the change did not affect the quality requirements for drinking water.
政府以逾 5000 萬元買水被呃，物流服務署署長陳嘉信昨開腔回應，將事件定性為「騙案」，又指現行採構機制不足，未有足夠能力堵塞「存心詐騙嘅投標者」。今次是政府首次有內地飲用水品牌中標，中標的供應商「鑫鼎鑫」從未有供應飲用水「往績」、董事有欠債紀錄、更曾捲「詐騙」官司。公眾關注公司為何能中標、政府有否放鬆投標資格？
《集誌社》向財庫局查詢，獲 2023 年和 2025 年兩份飲用水的招標文件。翻查比較文件下，發現在合約期更長、涉貨量和派送地點更多下，此前沿用的「雙軌」評分制、即技術和價格各佔一半，在今次招標被取消；供應商只要符合基本規格入閘，便以每公升價格計「價低者得」。財庫局回覆查詢指，樽裝水規格簡單明確，指定技術規格和運送安排，已在招標文件內列為必要要求，強調改變不影響飲用水的品質要求。
22 Aug 2025法庭線#7203
政府刊憲 警方擬剔除人民力量、學民思潮等6組織社團註冊
The Government gazetted an announcement on Friday (22nd) stating that the Police believe nearly 300 societies have ceased to exist. Unless the societies prove to the Police within three months that they still exist, they will be removed from the Register of Societies.
The list includes People Power, Scholarism, the Tin Shui Wai Livelihood Concern Platform, the Sha Tin Community Network, Kowloon City Matters and Tseung Kwan O Youth Power. A review of available information shows that the six societies have pro-democracy backgrounds, and some of their members are defendants in the case involving 47 pro-democracy figures.
政府周五（22 日）刊憲公布，警務處相信近 300 個社團已停止存在，除非相關社團在 3 個月內向警方證明其仍存在，否則會在社團名冊將其除名。
名單之中，包括「人民力量」、「學民思潮」、「天水圍民生關注平台」、「沙田社區網絡」、「九龍城大小事」及「將軍澳青年力量」。翻查資料，這 6 個社團涉及民主派背景，部分成員為民主派 47 人案的被告。
21 Aug 2025獨媒#7190
【冒牌水】政府終止所有與鑫鼎鑫有關合約 包括消防處資料輸入服務
Following the incident in which the Government Logistics Department purchased counterfeit water, the department suspended that contract and three other chemical contracts linked to the person in charge. A government spokesman said last night that the Drainage Services Department and the Fire Services Department had also immediately terminated contracts with the companies concerned—chemical and data-input services contracts, respectively—involving more than 6 million dollars and more than 5 million dollars.
The contract for bottled drinking water for government offices involved in the incident was awarded on 26 June this year and was worth 52.94 million dollars. The three chemical contracts terminated earlier were awarded to the related companies Kwok Yeung Enterprises Limited and Kwok Yeung Enterprises (Hong Kong) Limited to supply the Government Logistics Department with bleaching powder, bleach and bleaching pellets. The contract values were 712,500 dollars, 1.08 million dollars and 236,650 dollars, respectively.
政府物流服務署購買了冒牌水一事事發後，物流署中止了該合約及另外三張與其負責人有關的化學品合約。政府發言人昨晚稱，渠務署及消防處亦即時終止與該些公司的合約，分別為化學品合約和資料輸入服務合約，涉600多萬及500多萬。
出事的政府辦公室樽裝飲用水合約，批出日期為今年6月26日，價值為5,294萬。至於早前終止的三張化學品合約，分別由關聯公司「國洋企業有限公司」及「國洋企業（香港）有限公司」獲符，向物流署供應漂白粉、漂白水及漂丸，合約價值分別為71.25萬、108萬及236,650元。
21 Aug 2025集誌社#7192
公僕水患｜「代物流署致歉」陳嘉信是誰？ 座駕、仕途皆「炒車」 任勞工處長遇官場滑鐵
The Government was duped into paying more than $50 million for water. Chan Ka-shun, Director of the Government Logistics Department, spoke publicly for the first time today (21st), saying: “I apologise to everyone on behalf of the Logistics Department.” The veteran administrative officer, whom Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui called “Mr Chan”, joined the Government in 1987. After the handover, he served as Assistant Director of Housing, handling public-housing rent reviews, and in 2012 became Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s Private Secretary. Chan, who once crashed a Porsche sports car, has also suffered a “crash” in his career. After becoming Commissioner for Labour in 2016, he was accused of offending the labour sector, the pro-establishment camp and politicians from the democratic camp, and was derided by the Workers’ Rights Association as the “four-no commissioner”. He became Director of the Government Logistics Department in 2022, and as he neared retirement this year, became embroiled in the water-purchase fraud case.
(The Collective Newsroom reported earlier that Chan was “transferred in December 2020 to Head (Special Duties) of the Transport and Housing Bureau / Commissioner of the Sales of First-hand Residential Properties Authority, a position at Directorate Grade 3 (D3), with a monthly salary of between $208,000 and $227,000”, and was “demoted to D3”. In response to enquiries from The Collective Newsroom, the Civil Service Bureau said that when Chan took up the post of Head (Special Duties) of the Transport and Housing Bureau in December 2020—later renamed Head (Special Duties) of the Housing Bureau—he was a Directorate Grade 6 (D6) Administrative Officer, and subsequently concurrently served as Commissioner of the Sales of First-hand Residential Properties Authority. The Collective Newsroom hereby makes this correction.)
政府以逾 5000 萬元買水被呃，物流服務署署長陳嘉信今日（21日）首度開腔「代表物流署向大家致歉」。這位被財庫局長許正宇稱呼為「阿陳生」 的資深政務官， 1987 年加入政府，回歸後，曾任房屋署助理署長，處理公屋租金檢討、2012 年任特首梁振英私人秘書。曾駕保時捷跑車炒車的陳嘉信，仕途上也曾「炒車」。他於 2016 年任勞工處處長後，被指得罪勞工界、建制、民主派政界，被工權會譏為「四無處長」，至 2022 年任政府物流服務署署長，至今年臨近退休，再鬧出買水騙案。
(《集誌社》早前報道，指陳嘉信在 2020 年 12 月「被調任為運輸及房屋局主任（特別職務）／一手住宅物業銷售監管局專員，該職位為首長級乙級（D3），月薪介乎 20.8萬至 22.7 萬元」、「被貶D3」。公務員事務局回覆《集誌社》查詢指，陳嘉信 2020 年 12 月起出任運輸及房屋局主任（特別職務）（後改稱房屋局主任（特別職務））時為首長級甲級政務官（即D6 ），及後兼任一手住宅物業銷售監管局專員。《集誌社》特此更正。）
20 Aug 2025集誌社#7184
公僕水患｜物流署長「現身」返工 被問是否涉疏忽 陳嘉信：早晨
The HKSAR Government is suspected of having been duped in a water purchase. Chan Ka-shun, Director of Government Logistics, who is responsible for procurement matters, “showed up in person” for work at the Government Logistics Department office in the North Point Government Offices at 8:40 am this morning (20th). When pressed by reporters on why the contract had been awarded, whether negligence was involved, and how he would cooperate with the police investigation, he responded with the two words “Good morning” before leaving.
特區政府買水懷疑被呃，負責採購事務的政府物流服務署署長陳嘉信，今早（20日）8 時 40 分，在北角政府合署物流署辦公室「現真身」返工，被記者追問為何批出是次合約、是否涉疏忽，以及如何配合警方調查？他以：「早晨」兩個字回應，隨即離開。
20 Aug 2025獨媒#7186
錢寶芬遭終止領取退休金 公務員事務局：根據法例行事
Chin Po Fun, who participated in the “Hong Kong Parliament”, was alleged to have committed the offence of subversion of State power under the Hong Kong National Security Law. Last month, the Police National Security Department placed a HK$200,000 bounty on Chin Po Fun and issued a wanted notice. This month, the Security Bureau designated Chin Po Fun a “fugitive” under the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance. Chin Po Fun previously worked for the Correctional Services Department and was a correctional officer before leaving the service, making Chin Po Fun a retired civil servant. In response to an enquiry from The Independent Media, the Civil Service Bureau confirmed that measures prohibiting the provision of funds and others had been imposed on a “specified fugitive”. The bureau stressed that it was acting in accordance with the law, meaning that the monthly pension Chin Po Fun received from the Government had been terminated.
參與「香港議會」的錢寶芬被指涉嫌干犯《香港國安法》「顛覆國家政權罪」，上月被警方國安處以20萬元懸紅通緝，保安局今月再根據《維護國家安全條例》將其列為「潛逃者」。錢寶芬曾任職懲教署，離任前為懲教主任，是退休公務員。公務員事務局回覆《獨媒》查詢時確認，已針對「指明潛逃者」實施禁止提供資金等措施。局方強調根據法例行事，即錢寶芬從政府所領取的每月退休金已被終止。
19 Aug 2025Yahoo#7176
公務員飲內地水｜ 財庫局早前責成物流署承責 署長陳嘉信「現身」審計署展開審核
Government offices have been embroiled in a “counterfeit water” controversy. The government said last Saturday (16th) that it was unable to be satisfied that the mainland-branded water supplier Xin Ding Xin could continue to perform the contract, and decided to suspend the relevant contract. The person in charge was arrested. Public attention has focused on whether the Government Logistics Department mishandled the tendering process. Its director, Chan Ka-shun, had not appeared publicly or provided an explanation for several days.
The Audit Commission posted on Facebook in the evening that members of its Accounts Audit Division met with “the Director of the Government Logistics Department and other personnel” this afternoon (19th), beginning an audit of the tendering process for the government procurement of bottled drinking water. Photographs released by the Audit Commission showed that Government Logistics Department Director Chan Ka-shun and Deputy Director Lai Wong Suk-han attended the meeting.
The Audit Commission reiterated that, as the auditor of the government accounts, it would report truthfully and make recommendations for follow-up by the relevant policy bureaux and departments if it found any deficiencies or irregularities during the audit process.
The Audit Commission said it would continue to uphold the spirit of “being faithful to one’s duties, having the courage to take responsibility, and being impartial” in fulfilling its responsibilities in the audit field, handling different audit issues, and enhancing the service performance and accountability of public-sector departments.
政府辦公室捲「冒牌水」風波，政府上周六（16日）表示，未能信納內地品牌水供應商「鑫鼎鑫」能繼續履行合約，決定暫停有關合約，負責人被捕。公眾關注，處理招標的事宜的物流署是否安排失當，該署署長陳嘉信連日未有公開露面或交代。
審計署傍晚在 FB 發文，指審計署帳目審計科成員今（19日）下午與「與物流署署長等人員會面」，展開對政府採購樽裝飲用水招標過程的審核工作。據審計署發放的圖片，物流署署長陳嘉信、物流署副署長賴黃淑嫻均有出席會議。
審計署重申，作為政府帳目的審計師，在審核帳目過程中，如發現有不足或違規情況，一定會如實報告，並提出改善建議予相關決策局及部門跟進。
審計署表示，會繼續本着「忠於職守，敢於擔當，鐵面無私」的精神，在審計崗位上履行責任，處理不同的審計議題，提升公營部門的服務表現及問責性。
16 Aug 2025集誌社#7165
公僕飲水｜政府暫停港島「觀音山水」合約 中標公司鑫鼎鑫被查 公司董事年初借 800 萬元「債冚債」
Bottled drinking water supplied to government offices was previously awarded to a mainland Chinese brand. Civil servants in Hong Kong Island switched to “Xinle–Kwun Yam Shan Water”, but its producer had previously been involved in a food safety incident in mainland China. The Hong Kong supplier awarded the contract, “Xin Ding Xin”, responded at the time that it had “nothing much to say”. The Government Logistics Department announced today that, effective immediately (the 16th), it was suspending the “Xinle–Kwun Yam Shan” water contract. The department said that, “in response to operational information about Xin Ding Xin obtained recently”, it was not satisfied that the company could fulfil the contract and had suspended it in accordance with the contract terms. It also said the matter had been referred to police for investigation.
According to records, Xin Ding Xin, which won the contract with a bid of HK$52.94 million to supply 1.88 million bottles of water over two years, had two directors borrow a total of HK$10.5 million from a private lending company in August last year. In March this year, they took out a further HK$8 million loan secured against property to “cover debt with debt” and repay the outstanding loans.
政府辦公室樽裝飲用水，早前有內地品牌中標，港島區公僕轉飲「鑫樂－觀音山水」，但有關生產商在內地曾食安事故，當時中標的香港供應商「鑫鼎鑫」回應指「冇咩好講」。政府物流服務署今公布，即日（16日）起暫停「鑫樂－觀音山」水合約。署方指「因應近日取得有關鑫鼎鑫的營運資料」，未能信納公司能履行合約，根據合約條款暫停合約，又稱已將事件交予警方調查。
翻查資料，以 5294 萬元中標、兩年內供應 188 萬桶裝水的「鑫鼎鑫」，兩名董事於去年 8 月向私人貸款公司借共 1050 萬元，到今年 3 月再以物業抵押借貸 800 萬元「債冚債」，償還尚未清還貸款。
14 Aug 2025獨媒#7160
行政長官反恐督導組昨舉行首次會議 八月下旬大型演練
In his 2024 Policy Address, Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu proposed establishing a “three-tier prevention mechanism” by the end of last year, including the Chief Executive’s Counter-terrorism Steering Group. With the publication of a new Policy Address imminent, the Steering Group held its first meeting yesterday (13 August). John Lee instructed the relevant policy bureaux and departments to hold a large-scale cross-departmental counter-terrorism exercise in late August, simulating a terrorist attack on Hong Kong’s critical infrastructure.
The Government issued a press release yesterday announcing the meeting, saying that it discussed the progress of the work of the various groups under the “three-tier prevention mechanism”, the global and local terrorism threat situation, and the direction and strategy of the Government’s counter-terrorism work.
行政長官李家超在2024年《施政報告》中，提出去年底前設立「三層防範機制」，包括「行政長官反恐督導組」新一份《施政報告》公布在即，「行政長官反恐督導組」昨日（8月13日）舉行首次會議，李家超指示相關政策局和部門於八月下旬舉行大型跨部門反恐演練，模擬應對恐怖分子對香港的重要基礎設施發動襲擊。
政府昨日發稿公布「督導組」開會消息，指會上討論了「三層防範機制」下各個組別的工作進度、環球及本地恐怖主義威脅形勢，以及政府反恐工作的方向與策略。
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