From The Minister of State
The Rt Hon The Lord Goronwy-Roberts
hem Teddy,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
London SW1A 2AH
30 December 1975
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Jim Callaghan has asked me to reply to your letter of 18 November which enclosed a circular letter from
Mr Pun Ting Chau.
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Mr Pun's complaints have been fully investigated. original complaint was of police involvement in a swindle in which he allegedly lost HK 270,000. However, he refused to be interviewed by any police officers so the investigation both by the CID and the old Anti-Corruption Office had to be abandoned in December 1973. In May 1974, following repres- entations hy Mr Pun to the newly formed Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC) he was interviewed by one of their officers. Subsequently a joint CID/ICAC investigation was launched which resulted in the arrest and the successful. prosecution of 3 out of the 5 principals in the alleged swindle. Each was sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment and an order was made that each should pay to Mr Pun MKZ 76,000 in restitution.
Ir Pun's recent letter enclosing an "open appeal for justice" which has been widely circulated (over 40 copies have already been forwarded to the FCO), arises from the fact that all 3 defendants made successful appeals against the conviction on 8 September 1975. Mr Pun now accuses
the members of the Full Court who upheld the appeal, of a corrupt con- spiracy with the perpetrators of the swindle. In view of this allegation Air Pun was interviewed at some length hy the ICAC. Ile then said that he had no first-hand evidenco to support his allegations which, he stated, were
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