BA Ann Con uptich
Anve
21 June 1993
Foreign & Commonwealth
Office
London SWIA 2AH
Telephone: 071- 2702652
Mr KR Kaiser
Bowling Green Cottage 22 Victoria Road
Woodhouse Eaves Loughborough Leicestershire
LG12 8RF
HKCB. 380/2
Dear ihr Kaiser,
MRS JUDITH KAISER: INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION
(ICAC)
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Further to my letter of 22 April, we have now investigated the matter of your sister's possessions.
In your letter to Mr Patten of 25 September 1992, you state that you have no knowledge as to the nature of the case against Uwe Kaiser or whether he is involved directly or indirectly. As you may know, between 1975 and 1986, Uwe Kaiser was employed first as a manager of Swire Air Caterers Ltd and then as general manager/passenger services of Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. In 1986, the ICAC made enquiries into allegations that senior managers of the above two companies had been engaged in the wholesale accepting of bribes from persons engaged in the supply of goods and services to the companies. On 6 November 1986, Mr Kaiser and a number of other senior Swire managers were arrested and he readily admitted his part in a number of corrupt conspiracies, some of which had existed since 1978.
Amongst other things, Mr Kaiser was alleged to have accepted some 30 Krugerrands as bribes. Under caution, he admitted to having received 10 as bribes and to have purchased about 25 with his own funds. He claimed that his wife had taken all of the coins when she had left him some three weeks earlier following a matrimonial separation. On 5 March 1987 a search was made of Mrs Kaiser's safe deposit box and 60 Krugerrands and four French 20 franc pieces were seized. She had left Hong Kong by this time.
Mr Kaiser was subsequently charged with a number of offences of corruption and was admitted to bail pending committal to
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