| Abstract | In July 1995, Window has examined the strange twists in prosecuting allegations of fraud in Hong Kong's biggest corporate scandal to date, the collapse in 1983 of George Tan's Carrian group and its associated companies with debts of HK$8 billion. This article was to provide readers with some perspective on this unusual case, which had by 1995 been before the courts in various forms for more than a decade. The authorities' record in dealing with the Carrian cases had been less than impressive; from the trial of Tan and various associates infamously aborted by Justice Barker in 1987, to the lengthy saga of Lorraine Osman, chairman of Carrian backer Bumiputra Malaysia Finance Ltd, who fought extradition from London for years and eventually served only a few months in Hong Kong. |
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