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the Federal Rules of civil Proceduræ,"3
Although the Notices
directed that certain documents should be produced at depositions, Stain requested that the banks simply produce the documents and indicated that if any depositions were necessary they would be woheduled later. Over the next few months Stein received
document. from the banks and
to the attorney forwarded them
General's
stein then Learned
offics
that in Hong Kong. representatives of the Hong Kong Attorney General would arrive in New York in September 1990 to take the depositions of the record- keepers of the various banks, and stein began to schedule the depositiong. Neither Osman nor his Hong Kong or American legal counsel were informed that any depositions were to take place.
On September 18, 1990, the Honorable Pater X. Leisure issued an order appointing Harris and another representative from the Hong Kong Attorney General's office, Graham C. Grant ("Grant"), as additional Commissioners under the Letters of Request, thereb authorizing them to conduct the depositions of the bank record keepers. In re Letter of Request from the Government of Hong Kong No. M19-117 (8.D.N.Y. Sept. 18, 1990) ("the September Order") with the March order, the September Order authorized the "issuanc of subpoenas to appear and produce documents and physical evidenc pursuant to Rule 17(c), Fed. R. Crim. P., and to obtain testimo
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'Like the Letters of Request, the Notices of Deposition apps and the partiou] be identical except information to be produced,
to
for
the parties