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was to check the amounts received and report to MA Hak-shing if people wanted
reductions. He said that MA instructed people to stay overnight in rotation
at the Hung Fook Building and that if there was any warning of a raid, it was
job that person to warn the vice establishments of the raids. He said that the
money he took in was about $400,000 a month and that Cheng Pak was the man who
kept the books. When MA retired, he retired as well.
The man who did the bookkeeping was Cheng Cheuk Fan, who went to
Bay View Police Station with Sgt. MA Hak-shing and for the first 10 days of
his posting, actually worked in the Police Station and was sitting inside the
C.I.D. Office although not a policeman. He gave direct evidence of seeing
MA talking to Cunningham as already set out above.
He told the court of another "office" or "safe house" of Sgt. MA
at Electric Road, a flat rented by MA. He was handed the money by Uncle Luk
there and he banked the monies in various false accounts especially opened
for the purpose. He also gave evidence that he had bought drafts on instructions
by MA Hak-shing and, although not reading English and so could not say to whom these drafts were payable, he was able to identify his signature on applications for drafts produced in evidence and say they were purchased
from the corrupt monies at MA's instructions. He handed the drafts to MA
Hak-shing.
Another witness was CHOW Wing-sang who was personally employed by MA Hak-shing as a driver and general messenger. One of his duties was to
post letters for Sgt. MA. On some letters he himself copied the addresses
himself from pieces of paper given to him by MA. He knew that these letters
contained bank drafts. He could only remember that some of these letters
were addressed to Barclays Bank and others to the Westminister Bank.
He had these letters insured when he posted them, got receipts from
the Post Office for the insurance but always handed the receipts on to MA Hak
Shing.
Evidence that the drafts purchased from the corrupt receipts of the organization
were in fact forwarded to the credit of accounts belonging to Cunningham & Thompson
The corrupt monies were therefore traceable from illegal vice-
establishments to various Hong Kong bank accounts and from these monies,
sterling drafts were bought and these drafts or requests for drafts produced in
evidence.