Former Hong Kong Chief Secretary Rafael Hui has been found guilty of corruption and bribe-taking. Source: AP

A Hong Kong Court today found Mr Hui guilty of receiving millions of dollars worth of bribes from two brothers who have built some of the city’s most recognisable commercial buildings.

The trial lasted more than a year and the just spent nearly a week deliberating the charges levelled at Mr Hui and Sun Hung Kai property co-chairmen Thomas Kwok and his brother Raymond Kwok. Thomas Kwok was today found guilt of conspiracy to commit misconduct.

Mr Hui was appointed to Chief Secretary by former chief executive Donald Tsang who has previously been investigated by Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption. Mr Hui held the job for just two years.

The guilty findings will come as a blow to Hong Kong’s reputation of being corruption free compared to mainland China.

Prosecutors had alleged that Mr Hui had failed to declare being given a $HK. 2.4 million unsecured loan, the rent of two luxury apartments and while he managing director of Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority, which oversees Hong Kong’s compulsory retirement savings scheme.

He was found guilty of that charge plus another of accepting a $HK3m loan while he was Chief Secretary from a subsidiary of the Kwok Brother’s high profile company Sun Hung Kai.

The brothers were found not guilty of bribing Hui with $HK. 11.182m to keep a ‘favourable’ out for the property development.

However, two associates of the company were found guilty of offering it and Mr Hui was guilty of receiving it and carrying out misconduct in office.

Mr Hui, in total, was found guilty of five bribery and misconduct charges and the court has yet to set a sentence hearing date for the group.