ASSN
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
that there was a close relationship between Mr. George Than and
the Minister of Finance in 1983. In addition it is possible to
argue that an inference can be drawn from the documents that
some loans were made to the Carrian Group with the knowledge of
the Minister of Finance. However there is no evidence that
those who were responsible for taking the decision to seek
extradition of Mr. Osman were, at any material time prior to the
committal order being made, in possession of or aware of the
existence of these documents, or, if they were, regarded the
documents as being inconsistent with Mr. Osman's guilt or were
not pursuing the prosecution of Mr. Osman in good faith.
Reliance is also placed on the fact that after Mr. Jalil's
murder possession was taken of Mr. Jalil's diaries. However,
if this is correct, the same comment can be made with regard to
the diaries as has been made in relation to the other Jalil
documents.
Next, reliance is placed on the fact that in the course of
of the trial of Mr. Mak Foon Than ("Mak") for the murder of
Jalil (of which he was found guilty) it became apparent that one
statement made by Mr. Mak was not produced in evidence and other
statements made by him, which were produced in evidence, were
edited. An edifice was erected on this to try and support a
suggestion that the reason for the non-disclosure was that the
statements contained highly sensitive material relating to the
involvement of the former Minister of Finance of Malaysia.
court examined the statement which was not in evidence at the
trial of Mr. Mak and the unexpurgated copies of the other
statements.
The
They did not support this suggestion. The
explanation for what had happened at the trial put forward by
Mr. Grant on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong was that the
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