A former Chinese University Associate Professor, wanted by the Independent Commission Against Corruption for his alleged involvement in a $1.5 million housing allowance fraud, is being extradited to Hong Hong Kong from Australia.

Accompanied by ICAC officers, Paul Chan, 52, boarded a flight in Melbourne today and will arrive in Hong Kong tonight. He will be charged with five counts of an agent using a document with intent to deceive his principal, and will appear at Sha Tin Magistracy tomorrow.

Four charges allege Chan used four private tenancy allowance applications for South Horizons property, which contained false or erroneous statements, with intent to deceive the university. They claimed that neither he, his spouse nor any of his or his spouse's relations had a financial interest in the leased property.

The remaining charge alleges Chan used a form which contained a false and erroneous statement, with intent to mislead the university. The said form stated that none of the people named in the document was Chan's spouse, his or his spouse's relations.

The alleged offences took place between September 1993 and December 1998. Chan left Hong Kong for Australia in July 2000, and has not returned since. On July 22, 2002, a warrant for his arrest was issued. Chan was arrested by the Australian Federal Police in Melbourne on May 3 this year at the request of the Hong Kong Government.