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That group
BMFL to companies within the Carrian Group.
suffered a liquidity crisis in 1982 and is now in liquidation.
The Carrian Group companies were controlled by a Mr. George
Tan, who is Chinese.
The amounts advanced by BMFL to the Carrian Group and
which give rise to the charges are said to amount to something
like US$ 800 million. In very general terms the Government
of Hong Kong's case is that these advances were made
dishonestly. This is denied by Mr. Osman.
Having stated what I have about the background to the
extradition proceedings, it will be appreciated that the fact
that the habeas corpus number 1 application took a substantial
period of time and involved complex issues, again, in no way
reflects adversely upon Mr. Osman.
On 30th March 1988 his application number 1 was refused.
That led to a petition for leave to appeal to the House of
Lords. That petition was dismissed by the House of Lords on
14th July 1988. Before that decision was announced by the
House of Lords on 8th June 1988 habeas corpus number 2 was
made by Mr. Osman. This application was based on a number of
grounds, including that he was entitled to diplomatic
immunity, the committal was defective because it was
ultimately based on a Hong Kong warrant which was invalid and
the committal was based on evidence which had been obtained
from Malaya improperly.
On 21st December 1988 this court refused habeas corpus
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