Oh dear - the Chairman of the ICAC's Hong Kong Ethics Development Advisory Committee is now under investigation for alleged corruption - and the ICAC has wasted no time in removing him from its web site - but Webb-site has copies.

Song Lin disappears from ICAC site



As announced on 17-Apr-2014 by the Chinese Communist Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, China Resources Holdings Co Ltd Chairman Charley Song Lin, J.P. (Mr Song) is now under investigation for "suspected disciplinary violations", which is code for alleged corruption.

How very embarrassing for Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption, where Mr Song was Chairman of the Hong Kong Ethics Development Advisory Committee (HKEDAC), in his capacity as Chairman of the Hong Kong Chinese Enterprises Association.

The ICAC has a dedicated web site for the Hong Kong Ethics Development Centre, which the HKEDAC advises. On that site, at least until 14:12 (HK time) on 17-Apr-2014, the HKEDAC membership list looked like this (from the Google cache), naming the representatives with Mr Song as Chairman, but it now looks like this (captured 10:21 on 19-Apr-2014), with no Chairman and the human names removed.

Not only that, but the Chairman's message page has now been sanitised. It looked like this before (from the Google cache) but it now looks like this (captured 09:44 19-Apr-2014) and has been recaptioned from "Chairman's message" to "Welcome message" although the HTML page title and URL remains the same. Mr Song's name and signature has been removed. Fast work by the ICAC.

In the original Chairman's message, Mr Song states:

"As the Chairman of the Hong Kong Ethics Development Advisory Committee, I am proud to work with other member chambers to guide the Centre's work in promoting business and professional ethics".

There's also an embedded video, which the ICAC has not yet removed from YouTube, so we present it below - enjoy it while it lasts (don't worry, we have downloaded a copy):

Or for those of you watching in Mandarin:

But if you are concerned that Mr Song might now have too much time on his hands, fear not. He is still, as far as we know, a member of the HKSAR Economic Development Commission.

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