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that his total financial resources was then £101, 000. Another document dated July 1972 (copy marked "E" and attached to this report) indicated that in mid-1972, Godber's financial resources had risen to £171,900. Finally, although I have not personally scrutinized the mass of documentary evidence now in police hands, by the end of the week ending 9th June, the
officers of the Anti-Corruption Office were in a position to say that Godber's apparent financial resources totalled HK$4,377,248.43. Hr. Irvine has produced a summary prepared
by him and it indicates the following:-
Bank
Bank of Nova Scotia, Ontario
ANZ Bank
Date
22.3.73
1.
2.
Hongkong Bank, California
17.5.73
18.5.73
3.
4.
H.K. & S. Bank, Singapore
21.5.73
5.
H.K. & S. Bank, Kowloon
15.5.73
6.
Barclay's Bank, Rye, England
5.6.73
7.
Bank of America, Kowloon
23.3.73
Amount
Can 206,492.23
US$233,944.06 Aust$181,090.13
S119,410.30 HK$328,499.44 £ 19,906.67
HK$ 17,314.15
Conversion of the above amounts to Hong Kong dollars
Can$1 TIKA 5.06
1*
2.
US$1 HK$ 5.065
3.
Aust l = HK 7.10
S$1 = HK$ 2.02
=
C1 HK$13.80
4. 6.
HK$1,044,850.50
HK$1,184,923.60
HK$1,285, 739.90
HK
241,208.80
HK
274, 712.04
Grand Total, including items 5 and 7, HK4,377,248.43
i.e. nearly six times his total net salary for the period 10th August 1952 to 31st May 1973. The officers conducting
the raid on Godber's quarters found no evidence of any kind
which suggested that Godber's wealth might have been acquired through inheritance or luck.
It is also known that Godber owns a house in England.
Inquiries were made of a firm of solicitors in London; but they
are unable to say when this house was purchased and for what
consideration.
The investigation into the disappearance of the Godbers
The first information that the Godbers were no longer in their
quarters was received by the palice at 1.15 p.m. on Saturday 9th June.
certain rs. Gibbs, the wife of a Government servant, who lives
in the flat above the Godbers in Caldecott Road, informed a Superintendent Williamson that the Godbers' amah (who was a
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