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beginning of January 1992 by B.B.M.B., B. F.M. L. and another
company in the civil proceedings brought by those companies in
Hong Kong against Mr. Osman (Action No. A 4578 of 1978).
Osman says that the subject matter of that action "is identical
to the extradition charges against me". For the purposes of
this judgment, we will assume that Mr. Osman could not
reasonably be expected to have obtained possession of the
B.B.M.B. documents earlier than he did. In his affidavit in
support of the first of the two applications before this court,
Mr. Osman says of the documents as follows.
"41.
An examination of the new documents in conjunction
with a reappraisal of documents presented to the court in
my previous applications demonstrates that the Hong Kong
Government were aware that funds passed through B.B.M.B.
and B.F.M.L. to the Carrian Group on the authority of the
Government of Malaysia and, in particular, of the Ministry
of Finance. It can never have been supposed by the Hong
Kong Government that sums of this magnitude came from the
Small Bumiputra depositors for whom the bank was created,
nor from the ordinary funding from government sources made
available to the bank for assisting Bumiputra small
businessmen.
I have set out my belief as to the source of
the funds in my earlier evidence in Habeas Corpus 4.
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Further the Hong Kong Government cannot have supposed
that any of the individuals at the highest level concerned
in authorising the flow of money, believed anything other
than that the backing of the Carrian Group was a good
investment in the booming property market conditions of
Hong Kong at the time. That this was also the view of the
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