Ibrahim Jaafar

EDM number 901 in 1992-93, proposed by Robert Parry on 19/11/1992.

That this House notes with grave alarm that evidence has now emerged from files that the Hong Kong Government has sought to keep secret, that Mr Ibrahim Jaafar, a banker living in Hong Kong, was given a total 'bribe' by way of retained proceeds of crime, salary and other benefits, in excess of ú3 million, and a total immunity from criminal prosecution for his crimes, an immunity subsequently violated and not withdrawn, by the jailed Hong Kong Malaysian authorities to grant civil immunity to Jaafar, who was subsequently rejected as a witness in the Hong Kong courts on the grounds that he was a liar and unreliable; notes that this man was presented to a United Kingdom court in London in 1985 as a witness of truth, while the Hong Kong prosecutors withheld from the same court the wholly contradictory testimony given by this man prior to his immunity grant; notes that a man has spent seven years on remand as a result of the false position made to the court by the Hong Kong authorites; and calls for an imemdiate investigation by the Foreign and Home Affairs Committee of this House, into this situation.

This motion has been signed by a total of 8 MPs.