Former projects manager at the National Works Agency (NWA) George Knight is to answer to an additional criminal charge.

His attorney Peter Champagnie says the businessman, and one of his co-accused in a separate fraud case, Clava Mantock Jnr, have been charged with aiding and abetting illegal possession of ammunition.

The charges were laid after investigators who were probing their alleged involvement in the multimillion-dollar fraud scheme, revealed that 33 rounds of ammunition were found at premises owned by Knight.

However, Champagnie says the former public servant was granted bail in the sum of $200,000 when he appeared in the Gun Court Division of the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

Knight, Mantock Jnr and their three co-accused in the fraud case, are scheduled to return to court on Monday.

Champagnie says another bail application will be made on behalf of Knight and Mantock Jnr in relation to the fraud charges.

The other three, police inspector Andrew Bobb, Clava Mantock Snr and Melville Edwards, have already been granted bail.

The men were held in a coordinated series of operations at six locations last Friday, after two years of investigation.

Prosecutors alleged that a company led by former senior public servant George Knight submitted a number of forged documents to authorities to be registered as an approved contractor.

The Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court was told that the company was later selected for a $700 million construction project in St Thomas.

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