Corruption/ Page Two.
Statement.
I attach 4 letters from the Hong Kong Police files.
Those letters, and there are many others, show, prima facie, that Razaleigh
was offered a $50m bribe by George Tan.
The letters also show that tan was acting on behalf of Razaleigh
and the Malaysian Government, in large transactions.
11 days after the auditor Ibrahim, wrote asking Razaleigh if he owned
the shares, he was murdered.
The man convicted of his murder, said, in a part of his confession that
is now missing from police files, but which was reported in Court,
that he had been sent to HK by Razaleigh.
Corruption.
No action was ever taken against Razaleigh. The letters were known to
the authorities, and were deliberately witheld at the murder trial.
They were also witheld from the defence in the Osman case.
The Governor knew that the Malaysian's were seeking a political
prosecution, having been so advised by the UK High Commissioner in
Malaysia.Members of both the High Commission staff and the Governors
office knew about the Razaleigh link, and the use of this corrupt
prosecution as a means of covering it up. The FO will no doubt give
you sight of some of the other 150 cables.now held under Parliamentary
privilage, outside the jurisdiction. They carry a fairly full account
of the actions of the HC staff, and of the jailed prosecutors arrangements
with the Malaysians relating to the evidence.
The extent of the cover up and the bringing of a corrupt and perverted
prosecution is known to a range of Crown servants, outside the law
offices, at Downing Street, in The Governors Office in HK, at the High
Commission in KL, in the FO and at the HO.