Courts | Glória Batalha Ung says IPIM only meant to secure talent

Glória Batalha Ung, one of the major defendants in the corruption case at the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), said that she had only helped immigration applicants in order to simplify government administrative procedure. The former IPIM deputy leader said that her actions were purely to recruit talented people for Macau government.
On Friday, the trial of the case of IPIM former president Jackson Chang began at the Court of First Instance (TJB).
Ung, who was the defendant of the day, is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of IPIM.
The prosecutor noted that Ung provided “door to door service” for two immigration applicants. The two applicants were university professors.
Ung was accused of leaking the examination criteria to the two applicants, and helping one of them learn about how to pass them. This specific applicant is a professor in Chinese medicine, named Yan Peiyu. The applicant provided supplementary documents for his immigration application five times. The judge questioned the legitimacy of these supplements.
In her personal mobile messages to another party, Ung also recommended that the concerned applicant be more connected with Macau’s local Chinese medicine sector. Following Ung’s suggestion, Yan joined many Macau local Chinese medicine clubs. Ung said that because government policies back then requested that administrative procedures be simplified, she provided her assistance to those applicants ahead of their applications.