A man wanted for counterfeit credit card fraud has voluntarily returned to Hong Kong from Malaysia to face prosecution.

Andrew Lam, 50, was arrested by Malaysian police in Kuala Lumpur in June 2004. He decided to waive extradition proceedings and flew back today accompanied by two Independent Commission Against Corruption officers.

He will appear at the District Court tomorrow to face charges of possessing false instruments and equipment for making a false instrument.

Lam allegedly had 286 fake cards in his possession on July 10, 1998. Between July 7 and 10 that year he also had a quantity of blank plastic cards and a tipping machine, which to his knowledge had been specially designed for making false credit cards.

He was arrested in November 1998 but jumped bail and the court issued a warrant for his arrest.