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SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1991

HAD SUPPORTED THE

SENTENCES SEVERE

MR WOOD NOTED THAT THE COURTS OF HONG KONG

IN HANDING DOWN DRIVE AGAINST ECONOMIC CRIME PERSONS INVOLVED IN LARGE-SCALE FRAUD OR CORRUPTION.

ΤΟ

ARE VAST

"HOWEVER, THE PROBLEMS OF THESE COMPLEX PROSECUTIONS

CONSTANTLY STRIVING TO IMPROVE

AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES ARE THEIR ARMOURY.

STEP

THOSE ILLEGALLY

IN OUR AT THE AND

ONE

AHEAD OF KEEP "IT IS ESSENTIAL TO

ACHIEVE то

THEIR FORTUNES COMMUNITIES WHO SEEK EXPENSE OF OTHERS. THEY ARE NOT INERT. AS THE LEVEL OF PREVENTIVE

THE CRIMINALS," DETECTIVE MEASURES BECOME MORE SOPHISTICATED SO WILL

MR WOOD SAID.

HE SAID

PROSECUTIONS

INVOLVING THE SERIES OF HIGH-LEVEL

SERVICE AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR TARGETS FROM THE POLICE, THE CIVIL

AGAINST OF THE INDEPENDENT COMMISSION FOLLOWING THE ESTABLISHMENT

GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION IN 1974 HAD EXPRESSED THE DETERMINATION OF THE TO CLAMP DOWN ON WHITE COLLAR CRIME.

THE GOVERNMENT WAS INVOLVED IN A CONTINUING PROCESS OF

HIGHER STANDARDS.

"THE ROLE IS LARGELY EDUCATIONAL

BEHAVIOUR

STANDARDS

NEW APPRECIATES COMMISSIONS AND BRIBES.

OF

SETTING

THAT SO AS REGARDS

THE PUBLIC GIFT-GIVING

RULES

то AS

THE

ACCEPTANCE

OF OF THE

"IT IS INTERESTING THAT THE GIFTS BY CIVIL SERVANTS ARE AS STRICT AS ANYWHERE IN THE REST WORLD.

THAN

THE YOUNG "IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THESE VALUES ARE INSTILLED IN AS THEY ARE PERHAPS MORE APPROACHABLE AND LESS SET IN THEIR WAYS SOME OF THEIR ELDERS, MR WOOD SAID.

HE SAID CRIMINALS MUST NOT BE ABLE TO USE

JURISDICTION OF AND TRADITIONAL VIEWS INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF CRIME.

NATIONAL BOUNDARIES AS SHIELDS AGAINST

ARB

ANY

ONE

BETWEEN LAW 'WITHOUT EFFECTIVE LAWS AND MEANS OF CO-OPERATION

AND INTERNATIONAL, CRIMINALS ENFORCEMENT BODIES, BOTH NATIONAL

THAN CRIMES ABLE TO PLAN AND EXECUTE COUNTRY'S LAW ENFORCEMENT CAPABILITIES."

THE IR

MORE

QUICKLY

HE SAID MUTUAL

LEGAL ASSISTANCE

TREATIES

BETWEEN

COUNTRIES

WERE REGARDED AS NECESSARY TOOLS FOR THE FIGHT WHITE COLLAR CRIME.

AGAINST INTERNATIONAL

THEY CREATE CENTRAL

FOR

AND

IS THAT TREATIES "THE BENEFIT OF SUCH

RESPONSIBLE IS WHICH SUCH PARTY AUTHORITIES FOR OVERSEEING THE EXECUTION OF REQUESTS. THIS REMOVES THE AND UNNECESSARY USE OF DIPLOMATIC CHANNELS AND REQUESTS CAN BE MADE AT THE INVESTIGATORY STAGE RATHER THAN ONLY CHARGES HAVE BEEN FILED.

H

MAKING TIME-CONSUMING

FOR EVIDENCE AFTER FORMAL

HE SAID

THE UNITED ASSISTANCE TREATIES,

STATES

A HAD

NUMBER OF MUTUAL LEGAL

/"PRESENTLY WE