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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1987

COUNTERFEITING SYNDICATES NEUTRALISED

THE COMMERCIAL CRIME BUREAU OTHER OF WELL SECRETARY, THE HON

THE SPECIAL DIVISION OF

COUNTERFEIT BANKNOTES AND RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF

HAD SUCCESSFULLY NEUTRALISED A NUMBER SECURE DOCUMENTS

YEAR, THE FINANCIAL ORGANISED SYNDICATES LAST PIERS JACOBS, SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

IN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON HELMUT SOHMEN ON MEASURES BANKNOTES, IN BOTH HONG TAKEN TO TACKLE THE PROBLEM OF COUNTERFEIT KONG

MR JACOBS SAID

PERSONS FIVE

AND BANKNOTES CONVICTED FOR CONSPIRACY TO MANUFACTURE HK$1,000 SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS' IMPRISONMENT EACH IN JULY THIS YEAR.

CURRENCIES, AND FOREIGN

WERE

WERE

THE HE ALSO NOTED THAT

BOTH CONDUCT ENQUIRIES OF COUNTERFEIT SYNDICATES NEUTRALISED LAST YEAR.

SPECIAL DIVISION OVERT AND

COVERT

RESTRICTION ON NON-SCHEDULED FLIGHTS

WAS CONTINUING NATURE INTO

TO

THE

NOT PERMITTED AT

NON-SCHEDULED PASSENGER FLIGHTS ARE USUALLY KAI TAK AIRPORT BETWEEN 12.30 PM AND 4.30 PM, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON PIERS JACOBS, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

DAVID LI, MR JACOBS SAID REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON THIS RESTRICTION WAS REVIEWED LAST JANUARY AND IT WAS NO CHANGE SHOULD BE MADE AT THIS STAGE.

CONCLUDED THAT

HOUSING AUTHORITY TO PLAY GREATER ROLE IN

THE LONG TERM HOUSING STRATEGY

HOUSING

PLAY IN

STRATEGY

THE

IS

THE HOUSING AUTHORITY WILL HAVE AN EVEN GREATER ROLE TO YEARS AHEAD ONCE THE GOVERNMENT'S NEW LONG-TERM IMPLEMENTED.

THIS WAS STATED BY MR JOHN TODD IN THE CHAIRMAN'S THE 1986-87 HOUSING AUTHORITY ANNUAL REPORT TABLED AT THE COUNCIL THIS AFTERNOON.

REVIEW

CHAPTER OF LEGISLATIVE

THE LAST FINANCIAL

YEAR,

REVIEWING THE WORK AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE AUTHORITY AND ITS EXECUTIVE MR TODD ARM, THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT, IN POINTED OUT THAT CONSIDERABLE AND SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS WAS ACHIEVED ON A NUMBER OF ISSUES.

THESE INCLUDED