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Kevin Cahi

Tel:

071-833 3086

Fax: 071-837 9024

R. A. Burns Esq.,

Mi

Athip!.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

London SW1.

24. 9. 1991

KN

56 Tavistock Place

London WC1 9RG.

An of Semi-daaft

Lorrai Osman years on remand.

Dear Mr Bayins,

THE 39/12

see attached

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30

b

Many thanks for your prompt reply to my last letter.

As I understand it you have rejected the suggestion that

ion

a previous Attorney General and Director of Public Prosecutions

of Hong Kong were agreeable to the offering of substantial sums

of money to 'recover' fugitives who had taken refuge in Taiwan.

Could you please confirm this to be your position. I apologise

if you feel I am merely asking you to repeat comments from your

previous letter. I do not wish there to be any understanding

over

such

matter. (You should make quite a

being correctly informed by HK)

sure

that

you are

I would further ask whether a previous member of the Attorney

Generals chambers, Warwick Reid, was involved in

in any attempt to

"deportation" of fugatives from justice in Hong

procure

the

Kong, by means of payments to Taiwanese officials.

For your own files you might like to enquire how Reid

was recovered from Manila. It was an instructive and documented

event.

eurs sincerely

yeurs

Kevin Caher.

له

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