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A former consultant microbiologist with the Hong Kong government has been jailed for 31 months for orchestrating a fraudulent scheme to deceive the World Health Organization and two overseas institutions into paying him more than HK$4.25 million (US$541,460) worth of research grants and service fees. Joseph Kam Kai-man was escorted to the District Court on Friday to be sanctioned over the “serious breach of trust” placed in him as the second-in-command of the Department of Health’s Public Health Laboratory Services Branch over a span of 8½ years. Deputy Judge Katherine Lo Kit-yee rejected the defence’s suggestion to suspend the jail...
