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house by ICAC Officers and in 1972 crystallises list of establishments which were then making illegal payments to the conspirators. Submit Your lonour can refer to that exhibit as corroboration of statements made by co-conspirators of names and amounts paid by these illegal establishments. 2nd is link between the two accused in this case to conspiracy I have referred. There is direct evidence of a link of 14 to conspiracy by Lau Cheong Wa a self confessed corrupt former police officer and he also links directly the 2nd accused to the corruptive syndicate. Secondly there is the evidence of Cheng Cheuk Fun of 1st occasion when he pur- chased drafts when he told us he was present in police station when he saw Na Hak Shing his employer having conversation with the 14. After that he was instructed by Ma to go to the Bank and purchase drafts on behalf of the Superintendent. A 3rd direct link implicating 14 is Fo6 calling card of wong Tak wing found in the wallet of 14 along with cards of other persons. what a singular coincidence for that particular calling card to come into 1's possession without knowing wong Tak wing previously. Bank drafts for 1a's bank in United Kingdom. That's the direct evidence. It depends on whether Your Honour accept evidence of Lau and Cheng. Indirect evidence overwhelming inference arises from
financial links of the drafts themselves. Drafts would have been sufficient to establish the accused to corruption and conspiracy without the direct oral evidence I have referred. However Your Honour
can look at these drafts and supporting applications as corroboration of this direct oral evidence. As to the drafts themselves I do not propose to go over the same ground as when I addressed you on their admissibility. Ample evidence from drafts and other evidence before you to find the particular numbered bank accounts were those of 1 and 2 accused as alleged by the Crown. As to credibility of Lau Cheong a strident attacks were made upon his credibility by the Defence that if he was a person who had on previous occasion framed an innocent man or if the man was not innocent had perverted the course of justice at the trial of an innocent person he might be doing the same in this case. Accordingly he was a person
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of such moral as to be totally unworthy of any credence by Your Honour. with respect to that argument it never left the ground Lau Cheong a or any other witness has framed any person. of evidence in this case enables it to stand independently of one person. Lau said that 2.. was posted to Bay View in June 1971 and at that time there was no Detective station sergeant and that Lau as sergeant in charge.