Airport subcontractor faces court for allegedly pocketing $650,000 staff bonus
2000-5-3
A subcontractor responsible for laying cables at the Chek Lap Kok Airport ' s Passenger Terminal Building, alleged to have pocketed more than $643,000 of staff bonus payments released by the contractor, appeared at Eastern Court today (Wednesday).
No plea was taken from Wong Woon-tak, 47, proprietor of Infotech Electronics Company (IEC). Magistrate Mr Ian Candy adjourned the case to May 23, 2000 for plea at District Court, and granted the defendant bail of $10,000 in cash.
Wong was charged by the ICAC with three counts of stealing $643,108 in total from International Computers Ltd. / Workplace Technologies Limited (ICL/WTL) between May and September 1997.
The money was said to be bonus payments from ICL/WTL to IEC ' s on-site staff under an incentive programme.
ICL/WTL was a contractor for the installation of cables at the Airport. The company subcontracted to IEC the cable laying works at the Passenger Terminal Building, worth approximately $10 million.
ICL/WTL included in the subcontract a Motivation Incentive Scheme (MIS), under which incentive bonus up to 10 percent of the subcontract value would be awarded to eligible staff of IEC.
Wong was alleged to have, on three occasions, dishonestly retained MIS payments of more than $643,000, and asked two of his staff to falsely acknowledge receipts of MIS payments totalling $300,542.
Wong also faced one alternative charge of having dishonestly credited $163,350 into IEC ' s bank account, by falsely representing that MIS payments had been distributed to IEC ' s staff.
The ICAC earlier received a corruption report alleging Wong of accepting advantages from another sub-contractor for not releasing bonus payments to its workers. The corruption allegation was found to be unsubstantiated.
ICAC officer Chu Wai-po appeared for the prosecution today.
No plea was taken from Wong Woon-tak, 47, proprietor of Infotech Electronics Company (IEC). Magistrate Mr Ian Candy adjourned the case to May 23, 2000 for plea at District Court, and granted the defendant bail of $10,000 in cash.
Wong was charged by the ICAC with three counts of stealing $643,108 in total from International Computers Ltd. / Workplace Technologies Limited (ICL/WTL) between May and September 1997.
The money was said to be bonus payments from ICL/WTL to IEC ' s on-site staff under an incentive programme.
ICL/WTL was a contractor for the installation of cables at the Airport. The company subcontracted to IEC the cable laying works at the Passenger Terminal Building, worth approximately $10 million.
ICL/WTL included in the subcontract a Motivation Incentive Scheme (MIS), under which incentive bonus up to 10 percent of the subcontract value would be awarded to eligible staff of IEC.
Wong was alleged to have, on three occasions, dishonestly retained MIS payments of more than $643,000, and asked two of his staff to falsely acknowledge receipts of MIS payments totalling $300,542.
Wong also faced one alternative charge of having dishonestly credited $163,350 into IEC ' s bank account, by falsely representing that MIS payments had been distributed to IEC ' s staff.
The ICAC earlier received a corruption report alleging Wong of accepting advantages from another sub-contractor for not releasing bonus payments to its workers. The corruption allegation was found to be unsubstantiated.
ICAC officer Chu Wai-po appeared for the prosecution today.