privacy-icon Kuan Kun Hong Appointed as Deputy Commissioner Against Corruption

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date-icon Release:2011/01/06

Due to personal reasons, the two former Deputy Commissioners Against Corruption chose to resume their positions at the Public Prosecutions Office starting from 20thDecember 2010. Nominated by the Commissioner Against Corruption, KuanKun Hong, advisor of the CCAC, is appointed by the Chief Executive as Deputy Commissioner Against Corruption and Director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau.

The new Deputy Commissioner, Kuan Kun Hong, obtained bachelor degrees in translation and interpretation and law from the University of Macau. His working experiences are summarized as below:

  • Between 1994 and 1996, he worked as a Chinese-Portuguese interpreter-translator at the former Department of Chinese Affairs;
  • Between 1996 and 2001, he worked for the High Commission Against Corruption and Administrative Illegality (predecessor of the CCAC). During this period, he participated in investigation of corruption cases as an investigator. With rich practical experiences in criminal investigation, he also worked as an instructor of the CCAC's investigator training courses;
  • Between 2001 and 2007, he was an advisor of the Unitary Police Service and attended the "Cross-Departmental Task Force for Combating Money Laundering of Macao". He also attended the annual conferences and the technical cooperation meetings of the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering as the representative of Macao (police).
  • On 20th December 2009, he was appointed as an advisor of the CCAC.

Professional Trainings

  • In November 2003, he took the Financial Investigation Course conducted by the Hong Kong Police;
  • Between May and November 2004, he went to Beijing and Portugal to take the Advanced Law Drafting Courses jointly conducted by the Legal and Judicial Training Centre, the Peking University and the University of Coimbra;
  • In August 2005, he took the Advanced International Law Training Course jointly conducted by the Legal and Judicial Training Centre and the Treaty and Law Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in Beijing;
  • In 2003, he took a course on police affairs conducted by the International Law Enforcement Academy in Thailand;
  • In 2003, he took an evaluator training course conducted by the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering in Malaysia.

Teaching Experiences

  • As a lecturer of the Faculty of Law of the University of Macao since 2003, he teaches courses on criminal law and Portuguese legal language. With expertise in law of Macao, he is fluent in Chinese, Portuguese and English;
  • In 2005 and 2006, he was an instructor of the 1st and 2nd Judicial Clerk Induction Programmes;
  • In 2009, he was an instructor of the workshop on the Law of Defense of National Security.

The Ombudsman Bureau is now headed by Ivo Donat Firmo Mineiro, advisor of the CCAC. Since 2001, he has been a General Investigation Officer (whose position is equivalent to that of a Department Head) in charge of the Administrative Complaints Investigation Department. Therefore, he has rich experiences in the ombudsman area.

Facing the personnel reshuffle, the CCAC has adopted measures promptly in order to ensure its operation. Currently, all departments of the CCAC operate as usual. All staff members are fulfilling their duties according to the designated plans.

The CCAC will persist in the pursuit of its mission without prejudice, extensively obtains public opinion and continues to enhance integrity building in Macao.