5.92
A.
A.
If a person in your position ne Accountant-General were dishonest he
ould make away with gablie money?
110.
Not even if he had scrociates?
uito likely, if he had associates; especially if they were in the
Audit Departsant.
Do you remember the Carvalho Yes ense?
If it is a loaùl cape I an afmid it was before my
In any case I think it is common knowledge hare that government money
was abstracted in very large mounts and that no arah entered the trans-
nations.
When I say eash I don't mean necessarily notes and coin, I include
cheques and bank drafts.
But then you do handle cash in that senset
You never sign a cheque?
thenever I sign a cheque it is incomplete - it lacks a countersignature.
If I may interpose hore, the terms of my appointment here are laid down
by the
ecretary of State, and not by the Hong Kong Government.
You owe to Hong Long from Seychelles?
A.
fron Mauritius.
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You were secured shile you were sp officer in the Tro::cury there?
Yes.
Co The conditions of your o:fice were very rauch the come?
A.
You. I might add it was purely a formality being secured there, and the
opinion was expresod that it was a useless formality.
It provably ws. fov, I me turning now to another point. Do you remier:
her a minute which I addressed to you on 24th Jemary this year, in which
I put forward åhe complaint by one of ry churoffs that he was frequently
called upon to handle smo very rauch in excece of his security?
I am afraid I have not a cow here,
Nay I read it out?
YOP.
"Accountant-ben: ral - I am not so optimistic as to suppose that anything
man be done to remedy this state of affairs, and I agree in Gything you
may say as to its unsatisfactoriness; I merely say that until another
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