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Well, Mr Reiale, I quite unduretand that we have put a

number of questions to you which you are not prepared

to answer straight away. Fut at the same time, I must

say that looking at the nature of the banking vocounts,

we have had before up, and the financial transactions

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jäntified år, expecting you tu give very much more

definite answers, and to tell us more than you have.

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evidence is, from our point of view, extremely

unsatisfactury. You save høen ong-ged ir considerat le

transactions. You have told us that practigally

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outside of your calary your transactions are very

considerable, ard you have explained cortalt, cash

payments through your Farking kocount in a

does not appeal to us as business mon. You pay you

cashed deposit notes with the pank for comparatively

speaking small aims, at odd hours, odd days of the

month, and you transferred them to your account at the...

Savings Bank, which I understand gives you a lower rate

of interest than your deposit acegunt. You have

explainaɑ some of the payments, by the fact that you

were running; a mess, but you have fola un roughly what

your fellow mess men pay you. Or one or two occasions,

when you paid exceptionally large sumus in notes into

your Savings Bank account, you say that that wan

probably the bulk of your measing account, but againat

that, there are no cheques drawn for your messing hills

and we know perfectly well that you could not have