Company director faces court for alleged Tung Chung construction scam
2001-3-16
A director of a superstructure main contractor for a Housing Department (HD)'s construction project in Tung Chung, charged by the ICAC for alleged conspiracy to defraud over the use of reinforcement steel bars in the project, appeared in Tsuen Wan Court t oday (Friday).
The $761 million Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) project at Tung Chung Area 30 Phase 3 comprises four residential blocks.
Fung Tin-tai, 43, director of Cheung Kee Fung Cheung Construction Company Limited (Cheung Kee), faced three charges of conspiracy to defraud HD.
No plea was taken. Magistrate Mr Allan Wyeth adjourned the case until April 6 this year, pending transfer to the District Court. Fung was granted cash bail of $200,000, and ordered to report to the Police once a week.
Fung faced three counts of conspiring with Chan Fung, Chow Che-wai, Lee Hing-tong, Lo Yue-hang, Wong Ying-fat and So Lai-heung to defraud HD between January and May 1999.
She was alleged to have conspired with these persons to submit false documents to HD purporting to satisfy HD that five specified batches of reinforcement steel bars had all been removed from the construction site at Tung Chung Area 30 Phase 3.
Chan Fung and Chow Che-wai, respectively former Quality Control Engineer and Project Manager of Cheung Kee, were earlier charged with similar offences and are to face trial next month.
The case arose from a corruption complaint alleging that some HD site staff might have accepted advantages from the main contractor and its subcontractors for allowing the use of non-compliant building materials at the above site.
Six persons, including the three already charged, were arrested by the ICAC last May in connection with this case.
The prosecution was today represented by ICAC officer Jason See.
The $761 million Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) project at Tung Chung Area 30 Phase 3 comprises four residential blocks.
Fung Tin-tai, 43, director of Cheung Kee Fung Cheung Construction Company Limited (Cheung Kee), faced three charges of conspiracy to defraud HD.
No plea was taken. Magistrate Mr Allan Wyeth adjourned the case until April 6 this year, pending transfer to the District Court. Fung was granted cash bail of $200,000, and ordered to report to the Police once a week.
Fung faced three counts of conspiring with Chan Fung, Chow Che-wai, Lee Hing-tong, Lo Yue-hang, Wong Ying-fat and So Lai-heung to defraud HD between January and May 1999.
She was alleged to have conspired with these persons to submit false documents to HD purporting to satisfy HD that five specified batches of reinforcement steel bars had all been removed from the construction site at Tung Chung Area 30 Phase 3.
Chan Fung and Chow Che-wai, respectively former Quality Control Engineer and Project Manager of Cheung Kee, were earlier charged with similar offences and are to face trial next month.
The case arose from a corruption complaint alleging that some HD site staff might have accepted advantages from the main contractor and its subcontractors for allowing the use of non-compliant building materials at the above site.
Six persons, including the three already charged, were arrested by the ICAC last May in connection with this case.
The prosecution was today represented by ICAC officer Jason See.