Nine people including a senior employee of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation have been arrested for allegedly falsifying piling test records to cover up short piling on a housing complex at a West Rail site in Shamshuipo.
Anti-graft officers found that records for 700 out of 1,500 piles driven for three residential blocks at the Nam Cheong station site had been tampered with to show the piles met prescribed requirements.
The $38 million piling contract was sub-contracted to a piling company for construction of the residential blocks and a commercial complex. Piling work was completed in June last year.
Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) officers arrested the suspects following a complaint against some supervisory staff at the site.
Those arrested comprise a KCRC works inspector, two construction company engineers, four piling workers and a foreman of a piling sub-contractor, and an assistant inspector of a consultancy firm.
The suspects, aged between 20 and 60, were released on bail last night pending further inquiries.
An ICAC spokeswoman said the KCRC works inspector was seconded to an independent consultancy firm, which supervised the whole project, including the piling works.
