33-APP-1997
EPITISH EMBASS. PAPIE
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The Embassy of Great Britain in Paris presented, in the name of the Governor of the Colony of Hong Kong, in November 1986, a request for extradition relating to facts presented under twenty-
seven counts of indictment.
This request for extradition was the subject of a negative advice of the Court of Appeal of Paris,
dated 4th November 1987.
Despite such negative advice, the British government thought it possible to present a new request for extradition relating to the same facts, with a different legal characterisation and presented, in this second request, under thirty-three counts of indictment.
Mr Rais Bin Saniman, who lived in Paris at the time of the request for extradition of 1986 having resulted in the negative advice of the Chambre d'Accusation of Paris of 4th November 1987, had moved to Saint-Germain, so that the new request for extradition was brought to the Chambre
d'Accusation of Versailles.
Mr Rais Bin Saniman, arrested on 11th June 1990 at his domicile, was freed under judicial control by a decision of the Court of Appeal of Versailles dated 26th June 1990.
Without endeavouring to set out all the facts supporting the extradition request, it seems necessary
to summarise the following points.
In 1983, fraudulent behaviours were disclosed within the Hong Kong subsidiary of the Malaysian State Bank; an investigation committee was appointed, but the results of its inquiries were never officially notified by the Governor of Hong Kong in support of the requests for the extradition
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