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To:
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Mr Anthony Royle MP House of Commons
SW1
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From
Mr Blaker
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
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Thank you for your letter of 16 January
enclosing a letter from your constituent, Mr
Alan Ellis of 20 Bishop's Close, Ham Common,
Richmond. Mr Ellis also refers to the questions
raised in his earlier letter to you of
7 December.
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To (Post): (silent cc) J Cater Esq CBE Independent
Commission Against Corruption HONG KONG (marked Personal)
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You told Mr Ellis in your letter of
6 December that you were prepared, as his Member
of Parliament, to put his allegations of
corruption to the new Independent Commission
Against Corruption. The department have now
spoken again to Mr Cater, the Commissioner,
following the discussion you had with him in
London last year. Mr Cater made the point that
the Commission had not yet started work, and
that he could not even consider the question
officially until it begins operations later
this month. However he confirmed that, if there
was additional evidence of corruption in
Mr Ellis's case, his Commission would look at it, since this was the Commission's function. At the same time he pointed out, as he did to you, that the Commission Against Corruption
/could not
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