HK exec gets 15-year ban for taking bribe

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission has banned Gong Yueyue, a former employee of Orient Securities (Hong Kong), representative, from re-entering the industry for 15 years following his conviction on February 25, 2015 for bribery. The Eastern Magistrates’ Court found that, in March 2014, Gong accepted HK$100,000 for the publication of a research report on a listed company. The target share price proposed by the research report was not an independent and fair assessment of…