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six to eight weeks to attend board meetings".
All four are
alleged by the Government of Hong Kong to have been involved in
Mr. Saniman is at present contesting extradition
the offences.
proceedings which are being brought against him by the
Government of Hong Kong in France. Mr. Shamasuddin has however
pleaded guilty to four charges and has already been sentenced by
a Hong Kong court to ten years imprisonment. Mr. Jafaar has
been granted full immunity from prosecution by the Hong Kong
Government and civil immunity by B.B.M.B. He was granted
immunity in return for his giving evidence on behalf of the Hong
Kong Government. His evidence, which consisted of a very
lengthy deposition, played a critical role in the committal
proceedings before the Chief Stipendiary Magistrate. On the
present applications Mr. Osman relied on the assessment of this
role which was made by the court on the first application.
What the court said was as follows:
"One thing is clear: the question which underlies all
others is the weight to be attached to Jafaar's evidence. If Jafaar's evidence is to be rejected as worthless, as Mr. Ross Munro submits, then we do not see how any of the charges can stand. But if, on the other hand, the magistrate was entitled to have regard to his evidence, then his evidence alone
if we may be permitted to generalise
goes most, if not all, of the way to justify committal on all the charges, except possibly the corruption charges.
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Judgment in respect of the sixth application was given on
14th November 1991. Unless the present applications are based
on fresh evidence which has come into Mr. Osman's possession
since that time, the present application would undoubtedly be an
abuse of the process of the court. Mr. Osman relies on two
different parcels of fresh evidence which he has obtained since
that time. The first parcel, "the B.B.M. B. documents". consists
of a selection of documents from those disclosed at the
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