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that his total financial resources was then 101,000. Another document dated July 1972 (copy marked "E" and attached to this report) indicated that in mid-1972, Godber's financial
resources had risen to £171,900. Finally, although I have not personally scrutinized the mass of documentary evidence now in police hands, by the end of the week ending 9th June, the
officers of the Anti-Corruption Office were in a position to
say that Godber's apparent financial resources totalled HK$4,377,248.43. r. Irvine has produced a summary prepared
by him and it indicates the following:-
Bank
Date
Amount
Bank of Nova Scotia, Ontario
22.3.73
Can 206,492.23
2.
Hongkong Bank, California
17.5.73
US$233,944.06
3.
ANZ Bank
18.5.73
Aust 181,090.13
4..
H.K. & S. Bank, Singapore
21.5.73
5.
H.K. & S. Bank, Kowloon
15.5.73
6.
Barclay's Bank, Rye, England
5.6.73
S$119,410.30 HK$328,499.44 £ 19,906.67
7.
Bank of America, Kowloon
HK$ 17,314.15
Conversion of the above amounts to Hong Kong dollars
23.3.73
1.
@ Can$1
IIK 5.06
2.
US$1
HK$ 5.065
3.
@ Aust$1
HK 7.10
4. 6.
S$1
HK
61
2.02 HK$13.80
HK$1,044,850.50
HK$1,184,923.60
HK$1,285,739.90
HK
241,208.80
HK
274,712.04
Grand Total, including items 5 and 7, HK4,377,248.43
i.e. nearly six times his total net salary for the period
10th August 1952 to 31st May 1973. The officers conducting
the raid on Godber's quarters found no evidence of any kind
which suggested that Godber's wealth might have been acquired
through inheritance or luck.
It is also known that Godber owns a house in England.
Inquiries were made of a firm of solicitors in London; but they
are unable to say when this house was purchased and for what
consideration.
The investigation into the disappearance of the Godbers
The first information that the Godbers were no longer in their
quarters was received by the palice at 1.15 p.m. on Saturday 9th June. A
certain frs. Gibbs, the wife of a Government servant, who lives
in the flat above the Godbers in Caldecott Road, informed a Superintendent Williamson that the Godbers' amah (who was a