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Then your tender had not been accepted ?

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No. He said if I gave him money, he would give it to

me to do it; if not, he would give it to a cheaper man.

Do you remember how many days between Lo Man Kai 12614

asking for the money, and pointing out you must pay the

money in order to get the contract - how many days

after that was the money actually paid ?

After I put in the tender, about ten days - it is

longer than that Lo Man Kai asked me for the money,

How many days after he asked for the money, did you nber

hear that your tender had been accepted

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I dont know. I cannot remember.

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Was it afterwards - are you quite sure ↑

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I did not give the money. I said the Government must

make the contract, before I gave it.

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I am talking of the time you promised that money

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not talking of the time you gave it.

A long time.

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what do you mean ?

Well, probably between 10 to 20 days,

Well, what I want to get at, is this: You had sent in/26/9!

your tender, and Lo Man Kai then asked you for money.

Would you or would you not, have agreed to pay that

money if the Government had told you your tender was

accepted, or did you pay that money, because you

thought if you did not, your tender would not be

accepted ↑

It I had known, I would not have paid it. I did not

know it.

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And it was after you agreed to pay the money, that you

then heard that you had got the tender ↑

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