The ICAC has charged eight people over the illegal excavation of boulders from Tung Chung Stream.

Tung Chung Rural Committee chairman, vice-chairman and secretary, Law Kam-fai, 63, Li Kwai-mo, 61, and Mok Kwong-ming, 65, plus committee members Fan Chi-ping, Cheung Kwok-kwong, and Wong Sing-lam, engineering company operator Wong Yat-wah and senior site superintendent Kwok Loi-yau face charges of alleged fraud and perverting the course of public justice. They will appear at Tsuen Wan Magistracy tomorrow.

Law and Wong Yat-wah face two joint charges of conspiracy. The first alleges they defrauded the Government in relation to false representations over a flooding problem between particular sections of the stream, and the second one relates to the theft of rocks from it.

They are alleged to have falsely claimed the committee had instructed Wong Yat-wah to carry out a flood prevention project. They are further alleged to have colluded to dishonestly remove the rocks. They have also been jointly charged with one count of unauthorised excavation on unleased land, as well as one of removal of stone from unleased land.

Another charge alleges Law, Wong Yat-wah, Li, Mok, Fan, Cheung and Wong Sing-lam conspired together and with others to pervert the course of public justice by falsely representing to Police that Wong Yat-wah was authorised by the committee.

Wong Yat-wah and Kwok face another charge of conspiring together and with another to pervert the course of public justice in relation to the origin and cost of the rocks.

Wong Yat-wah alone faces a further charge of conspiracy to pervert the course of public justice by falsely representing to the Police that a named contractor had provided free charitable service to the committee regarding dredging work of the streambed.