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On 9 April 2024, Mr. Kris Lee and Mr. Anoop Gidwani, Directors of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Hong Kong Chapter attended a virtual interview by Professor Andreas Chai, Director of the Academy of Financial Crime Investigation and Compliance. In this interview, Anoop and Kris discussed about the history and development of ICAC, corruption investigations, financial crime, anti-money laundering and shared some interesting cases. Kris and Anoop also answered questions from the students online. 

ACFE Hong Kong Chapter recently presented two half-day practical interview skills workshops. The workshops received some outstanding reviews from the participants from wide-ranging job responsibilities in corporate and government audit and compliance, education, computer forensics, investigations and accounting. 84% of those attending were satisfied or very satisfied and 83% would recommend the course to their peers. Our presenters, Ian Barlow and Kris Lee, received high marks for their presentation skills and management of the practical exercises. We thank all those who attended and took the time to give their considered reviews of the workshops. Our thanks also to Grant Thornton for the generous use of their excellent training rooms. We have heard the suggestions about repeating this course, expanding the content to include investigation strategies and of extending the event to a full day. Please look out for announcements by email and Facebook and on our website for all our 2024 events.

The Hong Kong Chapter ACFE congratulates Mr John D Gill on his appointment as President ACFE and Mr John Warren on his appointment as CEO ACFE, succeeding Mr Bruce Dorris. We wish Mr Gill and Mr Warren every success in these positions and offer our thanks and best wishes to Mr Dorris.

Today we have completed our annual signature event Fraud Investigation Training 2023 (part 1), organize in partnership with Centre for Criminology, HKU. We are glad to have distinguished speakers to share their knowledge and experience with over 100 attendees over the four Saturdays in June 2023. Thank you for support and see you in upcoming events.

Barry Tong, President of ACFE HK Chapter, was interviewed by Fraud Magazine in May/June 2023 issue.

" Barry Tong, CFE, wanted to be an accountant ever since he was in secondary school, but it wasn’t until he joined a Big Four firm’s insolvency and restructuring department that he became interested in fighting fraud. Now, Tong spearheads fraud investigations as Grant Thornton China’s national leader of Forensic and Investigation Services (FIS) based in Hong Kong. "

Read full article here

The ACFE Hong Kong Chapter annual dinner was held successfully on 15 December 2022 at Regal Hong Kong Hotel.  We had over 150 participants, including representatives of our supporting organizations and our members and friends.

It is our honour to have Mr Joseph H. L. Chan, JP, Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of the Government of Hong Kong SAR as our Guest of Honour Speaker and gave us a keynote speech.  We are also pleased to have Prof. Nelson Lam, JP, Director of Audit of the Government of Hong Kong SAR and Mr. Edmund Wong, LegCo Accountancy functional constituency representative,  to be our honourable guests.

Once again, thank you for your support of the annual dinner. 

Our President, Mr Barry Tong’s speech and presentation slides are available.  More photos are available in the photo album.

To all ACFE Hong Kong Chapter Members

FOR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION

10^th December 2022

Notice of change of venue for the AGM on 15^th December 2022

I wish to inform you that due to logistic arrangement of Regal Hotel, the venue of the forthcoming AGM on 15^th December 2022, Thursday will be changed to the following location and NOT Level B1:

Victoria Boardroom
3/F., Regal Hotel
88 Yee Wo Street
Causeway Bay
Hong Kong

The amended AGM notice is attached for your reference.  The meeting will start at 6:00 p.m.

Regards
Peter Wong
Secretary

Full Notice of Annual General Meeting (Amended)

Sing Tao News reported the view of ESG fraud of Barry Tong and Albert Ho of ACFE Hong Kong Chapter.

...特許詐騙審查師學會香港分會會長湯飈指，近年在歐美等地的「綠色詐騙」個案有上升趨勢，慶幸歪風尚未吹至香港，惟最近也多了客戶查詢相關審查服務。他認為，「綠色詐騙」的成因眾多，不限於金錢或利益衡突，最終目的也只是吸引投資者及應付相關條例要求。...

...特許詐騙審查師學會香港分會董事兼研究委員會主席何仕景解釋，「綠色詐騙」跟普通詐騙屬同一層面，只是欺騙的對象不同。...

Full article:  https://hd.stheadline.com/news/realtime/hk/2388165/

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Hong Kong Chapter Limited (“ACFE-HK”) will be held at the function room at Basement 1, Victoria Boardroom at 3/F., Regal Hong Kong Hotel, 88 Yee Wo Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong on Thursday, 15th December 2022 at 6:00 p.m. for the following purposes:

1. To approve the minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 8th February 2022;
2. To approve and adopt the Report of the Board of Directors and the audited Financial Statements for the year ended 30th June 2022;
3. To appoint the Honorary Auditors;
4. To fill the vacancies arising from the retirement of certain Members of the Board of Directors for 2022/2023;
5. Any other business

By order of the Board

Peter KM Wong
Secretary

Hong Kong, 24th November 2022

Note: Venue is changed due to logistic arrangement.  Please refer to the Notice of change of venue for the AGM on 15th December 2022

Full Notice of Annual General Meeting

Full Notice of Annual General Meeting (Amended)

Sing Tao News reported research reports of the ACFE, presented by Barry Tong and Albert Ho of ACFE Hong Kong Chapter. 

詐騙審查師學會：小心綠色金融欺詐風險

（星島日報報道）在複雜的商業社會，欺詐事件有時難以避免。不過，根據特許詐騙審查師學會的調查顯示，由於近年企業員工反詐騙意識提升，更多人願意挺身舉報，因此詐騙事件遭揭發的時間，有縮短的趨勢。雖然如此，隨着商業活動不斷轉變，新的詐騙漏洞亦會浮現，例如現時大行其道的綠色金融，亦不排除有涉及詐騙活動的風險。

Full article:  https://std.stheadline.com/daily/article/2489161/