WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1990
INVOLVED
IN A THE BILL POWER
SIR PIERS SAID ON THE TECHNICAL CONSEQUENCES CONVERSION FROM A COMPULSORY TO A VOLUNTARY WINDING-UP, PROPOSED THAT THEY BE DEALT WITH BY GIVING THE COURT A GENERAL OF DIRECTION.
REQUIRED TO
GIVE THIS
PROPOSED NEW
"FURTHERMORE, A TRANSITIONAL PERIOD WILL BE CREDITORS OF COMPANIES IN LIQUIDATION AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXERCISE RIGHT BEFORE IT LAPSES, AND THIS IS PROVIDED FOR IN THE SECTION 209C," HE ADDED.
DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.
AG PROVIDES CHRONOLOGY OF PROCEEDINGS CONCERNING OSMAN EXTRADITION
A
REGARDING THE
OF
JEREMY
OF PROCEEDINGS CHRONOLOGY
EXTRADITION MR LORRAIN OSMAN WAS PROVIDED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE HON MATHEWS, IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
PREJUDICE
IN REPLYING TO
TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON JAMES MCGREGOR, MR MATHEWS SAID HE WAS ANXIOUS TO SAY NOTHING WHICH COULD
THE THE EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MR OSMAN,
CASE WHICH WOULD FOLLOW HIS EXTRADITION, OR INDEED ANY RELATED PROCEEDINGS.
WARRANT
THE OF
UNITED ARREST
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SAID MR OSMAN WAS ARRESTED IN
1985 UNDER A KINGDOM ON DECEMBER 6
PROVISIONAL ISSUED ON DECEMBER 2, 1985.
I
PROCEEDINGS AT BOW STREET
MAY 27.
1986. IT WAS
"THE HEARING OF EXTRADITION
LONDON COMMENCED ON
MAGISTRATES COURT COMPLETED A YEAR LATER.
IN
WAS COMMITTED "ON JUNE 1, 1987 HE
ΤΟ PRISON ΤΟ AWAIT HIS ΤΟ RETURN TO HONG KONG ON 42 CHARGES INCLUDING CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY
THEFT AND FALSE DEFRAUD, CONSPIRACY TO STEAL, ACCEPTING ADVANTAGES, ACCOUNTING. THE CHARGES INVOLVE A SUM IN EXCESS OF 800 MILLION
U.S.
DOLLARS.
"SINCE THEN MR OSMAN
COURTS APPEALS BEFORE THE MALAYSIA AND BEFORE THE MR MATHEWS SAID.
IN
HAS PURSUED NUMEROUS APPLICATIONS
THE UNITED KINGDOM, HONG EUROPEAN COMMISSION OF HUMAN
AND KONG AND RIGHTS,"
THAT BECAUSE OF HE SAID
THE NUMBER AND DETAIL OF THESE PROCEEDINGS A CHRONOLOGY HAD BEEN PROVIDED FOR MEMBERS BENEFIT.
J
MATHEWS MR
SAID: "IN ESSENCE MR OSMAN HAS MADE FOUR IS PENDING. THE APPLICATIONS FOR WRITS OF HABEAS CORPUS. THE FOURTH
BEEN
AS UNSUCCESSFUL,
HAVE FIRST THREE SUCH APPLICATIONS HAVE
THE DETERMINATION OF VARIOUS APPEALS WHICH MR OSMAN HAS PURSUED FROM THE THESE APPLICATIONS FOR HABEAS CORPUS.
/"MR OSMAN'S