TNAG-0549-FCO40-644-Allegations-of-corruption-and-bribery-in-Hong-Kong-police-an-1975 — Page 26

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MANGOLD:

Last October,

celebrated his release from prison in Hong Kong where he'd been sentenced to one year, convicted of living above his means as a police officer. Together with his blonde German-born wife, Ursula, he drank not only to his present discharge but to the end of 21 years service with the Hong Kong police, sixteen years of which was spent in wholesale organised police corruption.

What are your plans now?

Huh.

I'm going back to UK.

I'm going to find a job, I don't know about you ...

My wife is....

I can work anywhere....I am a qualified secretary...

My wife..yea, my wife is a qualified secretary, she will

get a job but it's against the grain to live on the earnings of a female. I shall probably find something or other. (BACKGROUND POLICEBAND)

MANGOLD:

He was one of some thirteen hundred officers, over half are British, who run the Royal Hong Kong Police, a sixteen-thousand-strong force who maintain law and order in Britain's most important remaining Colony. (BACKGROUND BAND) Their jurisdiction runs through four-and-a-half-million Chinese, most of whom are packed on to Hong Kong island itself, Kowloon just across the water and the mainland new territories on the border with Red China.

It took me 22 years to master Chinese and I can't see myself mastering Spanish in another 22 years.

HUNT:

MRS. HUNT:

any effort...

HUNT:

You shouldn't have any trouble, you learned Chinese without

Listen, this must have been one of the most popular phrases

in Spain...tell him to wait...dicale Yespere

MRS.HUNT:

HUNT:

Dice el espere, or something...

You learn the bloody language.....(DON'T BE DAFT LAD) ..go

on you're good at languages because I'm not.

MANGOLD:

Ursula's manicured fingers usually carry ten-thousand poundsworth of jewellery, a small part of her sixty-thousand pound collection, a series of gifts from her generous husband, Taffy Hunt has already informed to the authorities in return for giving names, places and details of how police corruption has syndicated in Hong Kong, he has received immunity from further prosecution. Meanwhile, he can afford to take it easy as long as the money lasts and half-a-million can last a long time.

Now how does the system work in the police station itself? I mean how do you get your money? Does it come through the post anonymously or

how does it work?

BBH