Prosecutors seek stiffer sentences for 12 lab workers who falsified safety reports for Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge

Hong Kong prosecutors have asked the Court of Appeal to impose harsher sentences on 12 laboratory workers found guilty of falsifying safety test reports for a mega bridge linking the city to Macau and mainland China. The group of technicians and assistants from Jacobs China, contracted by the government to test the strength of concrete used in the crossing, received a range of sentences in 2019 for altering computer records and replacing genuine specimen cubes with fakes when compiling the test reports. The court heard that between 2013 and 2016, the 12 staff members at the testing laboratory on Lantau…