AMEDIATE
CYPHER CAT/A
GPS 500
FM HONG KONG 260900Z
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RECEIVED IN
MEGISTRY No.52
29 APR 1974
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TO IMMEDIATE F C O TELEGRAM AUMBER 462 OF 26 APR
YOUR TELNO 392: GOBDER.
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1. THE POSITION IS THAT OCCASION HE WAS PRESENT WHEN GODBER CORRUPTLY RECEIVED 25,900
HONG KONG DOLLARS.
HAS MADE A STATEMENT THAT ON ONE
2. THE ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL IS URGENTLY CONSIDERING THE
SUFFICIENCY OF AVAILABLE EVIDENCE AND A DECISION WILL BE MADE'
WHETHER TO PROSECUTE NOT LATER THAN MONDAY 29 APRIL. IT
APPEARS LIKELY THAT THE EVIDENCE IS SUFFICIENT TO SUPPORT THE
FOLLOWING CHARGE..
PETER FITZROY GODBER, IN MARCH 1971 AT WANCHAI POLICE STATION, BEING A MEMBER OF A PUBLIC BODY, TO WIT THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE FORCE, DID CORRUPTLY RECEIVE 25,000 DOLLARS HONG KONG CURRENCY FROM
FOR HIMSELF AS A FEE OR REWARD
IN BEING APPOINTED TO
FOR HAVING ASSISTED THE SAID THE POST OF DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE POLICE DIVISION OF WANCHAI, A MATTER IN WHICH THE SAID ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE FORCE WAS CONCERNED, CONTRARY TO SECTION 3 OF THE PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION ORDINANCE.
LONG AND DETAILED
3. THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF
STATEMENT. HE SAYS THAT ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS IN EARLY 1971 HE
HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH GODBER CONCERNING THE POST OF DIVISIONAL
SUPERINTENDENT, WANCHAI, WHICH
WAS DUE TO VACATE ON 1 APRIL.
APPOINTED AS HE WOULD BE ABLE TO GET A PAYMENT.
WOULD FALL IN WITH GODBER'S CORRUPT
GODBER WANTED
FROM HIM AND ALSO
ACTIVITIES. THE PERSON WHO WAS LIKELY TO GET THE POST, WHITELEY,
WAS REGARDED AS NOT CORRUPT AND GODBER DID NOT WANT HIM. GODBER SAID THAT THE THEN COMMANDER HONG KONG ISLAND, GRACE, WOULD NOT BE BOUGHT BUT HE WAS GOING AND HIS SUCCESSOR, WHITE, NOW RETIRED TO SPAIN, COULD BE. WHEN WHITE TOOK OVER GODBER BECAME VERY ANGRY
/AS WHITE
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