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Committee of Inquiry (the Noordin Committee).
One of the
The
members of that Committee was Mr. Chooi, a solicitor.
Committee submitted reports in due course to B.B.M.B.
Mr.
Chooi also attended a number of meetings with senior officials
of the Hong Kong Government, including the then Attorney-General
of Hong Kong and Sir John Bremridge, the then Financial
Secretary.
Mr. Chooi made an attendance note of a meeting which took
place on 17th January 1985. That attendance note is one of the
There are also attendance notes as to a
B.B.M.B. documents.
number of meetings which Mr. Chooi attended of the Committee of
Inquiry. Mr. Chooi clearly earned the respect of the Hong Kong
Government authorities and was subsequently retained by the Hong
Kong Government to act on their behalf in Malaya.
However, it
cannot be assumed from this fact that what he put in his notes
of meetings was communicated to the Hong Kong Government if they
were not present at the meetings (which was the case, apart from
the note of the meeting on 17th January 1985), or that his notes
of meetings would be accepted by the Hong Kong Government or the
prosecuting authorities as being accurate. Certainly there is
nothing in those documents to support the suggestion which Mr.
Osman makes in his affidavit that he had been "singled out in
order to cover up the default of the political masters of
B.B.M.B." and that the authorities in Hong Kong were fully aware
of that fact when the proceedings commenced.
There was nothing untoward in there being meetings between
the Hong Kong Government authorities and the representatives of
the Malaysian Government at a high level. This is to be
expected, having regard to the events which had taken place.
The Hong Kong Government could well take the view that while
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