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received by the Anti-Corruption Branch from
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Mrs. Elliott. Sk
She has been informed that
the allegations would be investigated provided
made that more details were available. She
get in touch writ indicated that she would contact her informant
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and persuade him to come forward but he has
so far not done so. Mrs. Bbliott has not yet reported to the Anti-Corruption Branch
the affair of the teacher's father-in-law
who was moved from the Judicial Department because he would not join in corruption.
Should she be prepared to divulge the name
and particulars of this teacher and father-
in-law the matter will be investigated.
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It is true that in 1965 a sergeant in
the Hawker Control Force did make an
admission to the Anti-Corruption Branch
and mentioned other non-commissioned
But
officers in the Force. A full investigation was undertaken ani
it was the advice of
the Attorney General that there was not sufficient evidence to prosecute anybody
except the sergeant himself.
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to you
Iexplained in my letter of 10 May
the strong measures the Government takes
against corruption. Even so there have
been loopholes in the lex. One of these
loopholes has been that the Prevention of
Corruption Ordinance has applied only to favours received for a specific object. I am glad to say that the Ordinance has already
also
been amended to apply to a transaction which
is only a contingency and may never take
place. Canxi The Chief Superintendent of
Police, Anti-Corruption Branch and a Crown
Counsel have visited Singapore and the
Attorney-General has visited Ceylon. In the
light of these visits amsiderabie consideration is now being given t8ystronger and more
even
searching anti-corruption provisions.
conseding other
Lexplanice that for from denying that corruption exisht, for attempting to
Cor conceal its existine,
the
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