Two former senior executives of a piling contractor have been arrested in Australia for their alleged involvement in a defective piling scam at a residential building project at Tung Chung.
David Roger Hendy, 42, former director, and Carl Voigt, 45, former operations manager of I-P Foundations Ltd were arrested by federal police in Perth and Brisbane on behalf of the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
Hendy has been charged with a total of 11 counts of corruption, conspiracy to defraud and furnishing false information, while Voigt faces 14 similar counts.
Both were taken before magistrates in Perth and Brisbane yesterday.
They are being held in custody pending extradition proceedings, an ICAC spokesman said last night.
The defendants, suspected of being at the centre of the scam, left Hong Kong in early 1999 before the ICAC began an investigation. Warrants for their arrest were issued in Hong Kong early this year.