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HK GOVERNMENT HC'

892 521 1868” P.Ub

In a subsequent and lengthy between Mr. Klaus

of history

correspondence

Kaiser and ICAC, he has endeavoured to persuade ICAC to return to his sister all those items seized from the deposit box. received from Mrs.

representative. the grounds that:-

(a)

No correspondence has been Kaiser herself or her legal ICAÇ declines to return the property on

there are good grounds for believing that the property, either in part or whole, represents the proceeds of corruption; and

the

(b) the property concerned was seized lawfully under authority of a search warrant, continues to retained lawfully, and has been exhibited in

criminal

proceeding

Once the

be

a

determination.

which

awaits

proceedings are concluded, the property will be disposed of in accordance with the directions of the Court, pursuant to Hong Kong law. At such time, should she so wish, Mrs. Kaiser would be at liberty to apply to the courts for possession of the property to which she lays claim.

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