AT says it is probing 'allegations relating to the potential misuse of public monies' in its road contracts division. Photo / NZ Herald
Three top transport officials accused of bribery totalling more than $1 million look set to go to trial.
Former senior Auckland Transport manager Murray John Noone, 52, faces six bribery charges to which he has pleaded not guilty.
His co-defendants have also denied the offending.Barrie Kenneth James George, 68, faces
four charges of accepting bribes in his previous roles as a road maintenance contracts manager with Auckland Transport and, before that, as infrastructure manager with the Rodney council.
Stephen James Borlase, 51, has stepped down temporarily as head of Projenz while facing eight charges of bribing the other two in their capacity as public officials and four charges of doctoring hours worked by subcontractors in invoices to the Rodney council for company services.
The trio appeared in the High Court at Auckland this morning where a trial date more than a year away was set.The September 2016 trial is expected to last eight weeks.
