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September, 1988 that Osman should seek an order in
Malaysia. The advisers engaged in a protracted
correspondence from early 1989 with BBMB who had got the
documents, which culminated in a visit by Osman's solicitor
to the premises of BBMB on 10 September, 1990, when he was
told that without a court order BBMB would produce only
those documents upon which the Government had relied during
An order was sought (as had been suggested on
committal.
28 September, 1988) and was obtained on 20 September, 1990.
It ordered the production for inspection of the 5439
documents and files. BBMB applied to set aside the order,
but their application was dismissed and inspection
commenced on 15 October. Of the 5439 documents and files
listed by Mr. Allison 3480 were missing. A member of the
secretary's office of BBMB (Cik Zanyah Wan Chik) apparently
said that the missing documents "are presently
untraceable".
On 19 October BBMB wrote that it was "trying
its utmost" to trace the "missing and misplaced documents".
At the conclusion of the hearing before us no more had been
heard from BBMB.
Osman does not, of necessity, know what is in the 3480
documents and files. However, from their description in
Mr. Allison's list (contained in "Ak/1") many of them may
be relevant to Osman's defence. The untraced documents are
discussed in Osman's affirmation of 29 October, 1990 para.
We find it unnecessary to rehearse the
37 et seq.
discussion.
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