Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market — Is It a Crash to the Icac？
Topic︰Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market — Is it a crash to the ICAC？
Introduction
Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has been a model for emulation throughout the world. When people studying the corruption problem of Hong Kong in 1960s and 1970s, most of them will study the Godber case. Few of them will discuss about the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market. In the 1970s, ICAC’s investigation into the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market met with a debilitating strong reaction form those allegedly involved. Governor MacLehose granted a partial amnesty to those allegedly involved to avoid a more vigorous reaction.
There were two schools of opinion towards the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market and the grant of the partial amnesty. A sect of historians argues that the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market and the grant of the partial amnesty was a crash to the ICAC. Such as Professor LIU Shu-yong, a historian, stated in his book that the grant of the partial amnesty negatively affected the morale of the ICAC, especially the Operations Department. This sect of historians believes that the grant of the partial amnesty interrupted ICAC’s investigation and wavered people’s faith to the ICAC.
Another sect of historians argues that the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market and the grant of the partial amnesty caused both positive and negative affection to the ICAC and those negative affection was not such as to cause a crash. For instance, the positive affection was the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market was helping in the smash of syndicated corruption and the improvement of public officials corruption. And the negative affection was the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market led to the confrontation in ICAC Headquarter and the grant of the “partial amnesty”.
Which school of opinion assesses the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market and the grant of the partial amnesty in a realistic way? And is the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market is a crash to the ICAC? To
Introduction
Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has been a model for emulation throughout the world. When people studying the corruption problem of Hong Kong in 1960s and 1970s, most of them will study the Godber case. Few of them will discuss about the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market. In the 1970s, ICAC’s investigation into the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market met with a debilitating strong reaction form those allegedly involved. Governor MacLehose granted a partial amnesty to those allegedly involved to avoid a more vigorous reaction.
There were two schools of opinion towards the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market and the grant of the partial amnesty. A sect of historians argues that the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market and the grant of the partial amnesty was a crash to the ICAC. Such as Professor LIU Shu-yong, a historian, stated in his book that the grant of the partial amnesty negatively affected the morale of the ICAC, especially the Operations Department. This sect of historians believes that the grant of the partial amnesty interrupted ICAC’s investigation and wavered people’s faith to the ICAC.
Another sect of historians argues that the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market and the grant of the partial amnesty caused both positive and negative affection to the ICAC and those negative affection was not such as to cause a crash. For instance, the positive affection was the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market was helping in the smash of syndicated corruption and the improvement of public officials corruption. And the negative affection was the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market led to the confrontation in ICAC Headquarter and the grant of the “partial amnesty”.
Which school of opinion assesses the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market and the grant of the partial amnesty in a realistic way? And is the Rich Pickings at the Fruit Market is a crash to the ICAC? To
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