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7th. January, 1974.
Dear Mr. Stewart,
You will remember that you contacted me in London to try to arrange a meeting with Mr. A. Royle, but that that proved
We then agreed that I should write what I had to say to
impossible.
Mr. Royle.
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The idea originated from Sir John Tilney of the Hong Kong Parliamentary group, who said that I should inform Mr. Royle if I had any evidenee to indicate Mr. Gadber's guilt on corruption.
Of course, the best proof is that Mr. Godber has enørmeus wealth, only $4.3 million of which has been located, and that he is not willing to explain where this money came from, since he definitely could not have earned it here. If that is not prima facie evidence, plus the fact that he ran away, I do not know what evidence is required. Sir Alistair Blair-Kerr, a most conservative though fair- minded man,
was not in any doubts when he talked to me ner has anyone else in Hong Kong any doubt. Britain is protecting a despicable criminal.
I did have a case with Mr. Godber in 1970. If this had been investigated at that time, I have no doubt that a big corruption racket with extortion, beatings, blackmail and illegal summenses would have been disclosed. The Hong Kong Police have always destroyed a case by waiting until it was too late, and then saying that such evidence had come too late to investigate. Forgive me, therefore, if I have become so cynical that I de net expect any action either frem Hong Kong or from Lendon, and am forced to the conclusion that Governments understand only revolution, rioting, strikes and disturbances: until these occur, they conveniently shut their eyes the more's the pity.
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On 2nd. May, 1970, after having lost complete faith in the Anti-Corruption Chief, Mr. Peter Law, I wrote to Mr. Godber, whom at that time I did trust a little, telling him about a mini-bus racket at Jordan Road, in which gangsters were forcing drivers to pay money, and mentioning police involvement, since summonses followed failure to pay the extortion money.
On 13th. May, Mr. Godber replied saying that he had passed on the complaint to the Anti-Corruption Branch, and both they and he had found no evidence to substantiate the allegations. His investigation took place without even interviewing the two men who made the complaint, though I gave their names and other details by which to identify them.
Disgusted with Godber's reply, I went myself, taking a camera and a European witness. Without the slightest difficulty I was able to take a number of phete graphs showing the gangsters collecting money. A policeman looked on and appears in ene photograph. Three policeman n the spot said that the drivers were "willing" to give the money.
When I published my article and photographs, the police, undoubtedly informed by Mr. Godber, as he was Traffic Chief at the time, said that no reports ef such extortion had been made prior to my article (which appeared in June, 1970). I was able in a television interview to show my letter which I had sent to Mr. Godber, and when the public
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