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Sir Anthony Royle KCMG MP
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I wrote to you on 24 July about the case of your constituent, Mr Alan Ellis, of 20 Bishops Close, Ham Common, Richmond. The Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong has now sent me his comments on Mr Ellis's letter of 8 July.
The Commissioner remains satisfied that
every reasonable effort was made to investigate Mr Ellis's allegations and that no evidence has been found to support them. There are no
indicating The
official records bearing on the question of precise employment within a station of very junior staff members; others, such as
Mr Hurst, have been unable to identify the room-boy; and the service postings record of Wong Kam-Ming, whom Mr Ellis identified as the person who offered him a bribe, clearly shows that Wong was serving at the Police Training
was School, Aberdeen, from 5 May 1962 to 8 July 1963. (I would add that when interviewed, Wong said that he did not remember Mr Ellis.) The Commissioner points out that the whole investigation was directed towards establishing who was Mr Ellis's room-boy at the time; but that this has not proved possible.
The Commissioner has also asked if Mr Ellis could be reminded that the Commission, in law, must confine itself to investigating allegations
/of corruption;
7084 D.073570 4M 4/74 Cr.P.C. Gp.839/3
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