Ex Cathay Employee Gets 20 Months' Jail for Taking Bribes in Human Smuggling Case The sentencing of Tsui Ying kit, a former Cathay Pacific customer services officer, to 20 months in prison for accepting bribes to smuggle mainland Chinese travelers overseas has raised questions about the extent of corruption within Hong Kong's aviation industry.
This case is not an isolated incident but part of a larger pattern of abuse that has been allowed to persist.
Between September 2008 and August 2009, Tsui accepted at least HK$18,000 in bribes from human smuggling syndicates to facilitate the travel of ineligible passengers.