Corruption Doesn't Pay

Genre

drama television series

How it feels

A 1990s Hong Kong police drama follows female investigators from the Independent Commission Against Corruption as they take on financial crimes like fraud, smuggling, and money laundering. The series shows them cracking cases involving insurance scams, credit card fraud, and police corruption.

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What happens

Corruption Doesn't Pay (廉政英雌之火槍柔情) is a 1995 Hong Kong police procedural television drama starring Sheren Tang, Esther Kwan, Kiki Sheung, Waise Lee, and Cheung Kwok Keung. The series was first broadcast on TVB in Hong Kong from 8 May to 2 June 1995. The 20-episode long series focuses on the Independent Commission Against Corruption solving different cases of a financial nature. Insurance fraud in episode 1–3; immigration stamp fraud in episode 5–7; credit card fraud in episode 7–10; drug smuggling and police corruption in episode 10–13; shell companies and money laundering in episodes 14–20. Tang, Kwan, and Sheung portray the armed women investigators who help crack the cases. The television serial was written by Lam Shiu Chi, who also wrote the similar themed, and similar Chinese titled TVB direct-to-video television movie Sharpshooters (廉政英雌) in 1994. That movie, starring Kara Wai, Elvina Kong, and Lee Kwai Ying, also focused on the armed women crime fighters of the ICAC. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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