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above, but not

in

minutes.

In addition, he had again omitted

from the 7 inter-bank borrowing figures

the

these

relevant inter-bank lending and

foreign branch offices contained at pages 7-10 of the minutes, (Pages 35 - 40

"LEO 1").

I refer

"LEO 1").

This

is

entitled document to a

4-page a

"notes for

document.

It is

This summary,

final example, 35. As

discussion", (Pages 41-44 apparent from paragraph 1 of these notes that a summary had been produced by a Mr. Ibrahim Jalil, the Assistant General Manager of BMFL, seconded from BBMB during the first half of 1983 specifically for the purpose of investigating BMFL's loans to Carrian and George Tan and related companies. which comprised 3 annexures 1 (A), (B) and (C), dealt with the question of of these notes, under section (B) page 3 securities for these loans.

Yet, "securities", it is apparent that annexure 1 (A) related to securities.

of the document, are integral part an these

which comprise annexures, missing. In these circumstances, the document is incomplete and inadequate

the purposes of my disclosure for

was made. As the main plank of the Crown case has been lack of security for the Carrian loans, the relevance of a summary of securities is obvious.

On

case

36. Given the examples which I have set out above, it cannot be assumed tha Mr. Allison's failure to find a particular document and/or a portion thereo and/or file to be "material" in his inspection must necessarily lead to the Th conclusion that such documents and/or files are not relevant to my case. more important determination of "relevance", I would again submit, was made t

the circumstances selection of documents in 1986 in BBMB in its original have already outlined.

THE MISSING DOCUMENTS

37.

It is against this presumption of "relevance" that I shall now tu to those 3,480 documents which are missing and unavailable for my inspectic At the outset, I think it fair for me to say that my task in persuading th Honourable Court that I will be prejudiced by the absence of these documer

such documents that

are, by definiti‹ the fact difficult by made

because exacerbated

many of The problem is missing.

is

particularly

documents are so vaguely described as to shed no light on their contents.

example, document 3791 of "CIA 1"

is described simply as "copy letter"

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