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Mr Wilford

PS/Lord Goronwy-Roberts

PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION:

1.

CORRUPTION IN HONG KONG

Lord Brockway has put down a Question for oral answer on 6 May to ask Her Majesty's Government how many cases have been investigated by the Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong; in how many cases action was recommended; and in how many cases did the Attorney-General agree to action.

2.

Lord Brockway raised the general question of corruption in Hong Kong in a Supplementary Question in the House of Lords on

ICK3/484 February. He did not at that time raise any specific issues.

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In putting down this Question Lord Brockway may have been prompted by recent allegations made by Mrs Elsie Elliott that the Attorney-General's office has been protecting corrupt persons by dropping cases. This particular issue was raised in the House of Commons on 19 February by Mr James Johnson MP in a Supplementary Question to Mr Hattersley. In his letter of 25 March, Lord Goronwy-Roberts gave the details then available, which were a decisive rebuttal of Mrs Elliott's allegations.

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Lord Brockway may also raise the case of a Mr Chan, although this case was not one that was investigated by the ICAC. Mrs Elliott alleged that a confession by Mr Chan, who had confessed to having been party to a murder in July 1973 when he had in fact been in a psychiatric hospital at the time, was contrived and that the Attorney-General's office had subsequently conspired to protect the police officer concerned in obtaining his "confession". Lord Goronwy-Roberts set out the present position on this case in his letter of 25 March to Mr Johnson, but I have somewhat strengthened

the tone of the suggested draft supplementary note on the case this time since it might make more impact to make the point that

/the Attorney-General