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Mr Murray

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PS/Lord Goronwy-Roberts

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HONG KONG: MP'S LETTER: MR GORDON BAGIER MP

AKK 882/2

RECEIVED IN RESTRY NO. 51

8 DEC 1978

NAD STRY

|Action Taken

814 125

lag A

1. Mr Gordon Bagier MP (Labour

Sunderland South) wrote to the

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lag C

Flag B

Secretary of State on 10 October enclosing a letter from who was convicted in Hong Kong on charges of corruption and dismissed from the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. Lord Goronwy-Roberts sent an interim reply on 17 October.

2. We have now received a report on

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lag D

17 November).

In brief, it appears that

evidence

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of witnesses.

Mr Sanguinetti,

case from the

on whose

Deputy Secretary for Security in Hong Kong (Mr Barnes' letter of

was convicted, may not have been the most reliable According to a leading local solicitor,

told him some time ago that he was prepared

has now made a further state-

to retract his evidence. But

ment denying that he ever said anything of the kind, and reaffirming that his testimony was true.

3. In the circumstances, and at the request of the Director of Public Prosecutions in Hong Kong, the Director of Operations at the Independent Commission Against Corruption has ordered the case to be reinvestigated by a different group of officers from those who carried out the original investigation.

4. In view of the contradictory statements made, Mr Barnes has asked that Mr Bagier should at this stage be told only that the witness has been contacted and that the case is being reinvestigated. I recommend that Lord Goronwy-Roberts should send a further interim reply to Mr Bagier on the lines of the attached draft.

28 November 1978

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R J ↑ McLaren

Hong Kong and General Department