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Hon. Col. Secretary.
For my own part, having considered this paper most carefully it convinces me of what I already believed, viz: that Sam Yin's List was a genuine List of people acting as intermediaries and of persons to whom he really believed he was paying bribes through intermediaries. It corroborates what I already believed that the same intermediaries or emissaries collected the bribes (they professed to pay to the alleged principals or their agents) in many cases from both houses (Wa Lane & Cheung Hing Street),
It does not, however, supply the last link, viz: the payment by the intermediaries to the alleged principals. I strongly suspect that payment was made in all the cases referred to in Yeung Ki's evidence, but, as it is possible, though I do not think very probable, that the denial of the officers in question that the money actually reached them is correct. I do not like in the absence of some sort of evidence as to the passing of the money from the last link to the principal (accused) to deprive of pension on the ground of the receipt of bribes.
That was the view of the Sub-Committee. They said