Sky Rail project supervisor charged over pay sheet billings
A Sky Rail project supervisor is alleged to have authorised pay sheets that billed the taxpayer for time not actually worked in a $300,000-plus pay cheque scandal.
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A supervisor working on Melbourne’s $1.6 billion Sky Rail project has faced court accused of a $300,000-plus pay cheque scandal.
Kory Oxley, 36, was working as a Lendlease building supervisor on the Caulfield-to-Dandenong rail project when he is alleged to have authorised pay sheets that billed the taxpayer for time not actually worked.
Police also allege he permitted Sky Rail project workers to leave the site and take company equipment to another manager’s home to do renovations.
In a brief hearing at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court, Mr Oxley’s lawyer asked for an adjournment, saying he had lost his job because of the allegations and needed more time to sort out legal funding.
Mr Oxley, of Berwick, faces 13 charges. Charge sheets allege he dishonestly obtained a financial advantage of $75,000 for others by falsely billing a government contractor on the project between March and September last year.
A further $196,968 was allegedly paid from incorrectly recorded hours worked between September 26, 2017, and December 3, 2018.
In that same period, he is also accused of depriving another contractor of $32,375 through falsified timesheets.
Two more charges relate to the theft of Milwaukee power tools, valued at $8000, and two Pelican lights, worth about $2000.
He also faces three counts of dealing with property suspected of being proceeds of crime, namely a boat, caravan, timber sleepers and a wooden spool.
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Police will allege Mr Oxley also threatened to kill and inflict serious injury on a person in Berwick on November 3 last year.
His brief court appearance comes after the Sunday Herald Sun exclusivelyrevealed last month how workers on the Sky Rail project had been charged over the theft of $200,000 worth of construction materials from work sites.
Mr Oxley will return to court on September 2.