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As an information, one will note that the managers of BMFL fled to England, and lived from the
result of the frauds committed by them, whilst Mr Rais Bin Saniman, on his part, was called by
the President of the OECD to carry out researches relating to developing countries.
It is therefore somewhat paradoxical to have Mr Rais Bin Saniman accused to have essentially
participated to a conspiracy with a view to committing various offenses against the bank, by
granting Ivans and by forging if necessary the accounts, which, once again, the very nature of
his duties made impossible for him.
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Despite the negative advice issued by the Chambre d'Accusation of the Court of Appeal of Paris
in 1987, and although the facts set out in the second request for extradition are essentially,
actually, a new version of the facts which were the subject of the first request for extradition, the
Chambre d'Accusation of the Court of Appeal of Versailles thought that it could, on 30th October
1990, issue an advice in favour of the extradition of the defendant, but in respect of tive counts
of indictment only out of thirty-three.
An appeal in the Cour de Cassation was made against that advice.
Although certain reasons were very serious, the Cour de Cassation which exercises and still
only since a recent date only a very limited control in this respect (it only verifies that there is
no breach of the law depriving the advice which is submitted to it from the necessary conditions
for its legal existence) rejected the appeal of Mr Rais Bin Saniman by a decision dated 12th
March 1991.
However, the Minister of Justice, after a review in depth of the case, proposed to the Prime
Minister to refuse the extradition of Mr Rais Bin Saniman.
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