Mercifully, the Commissioner did not go along with Mr. Maharag's submission, and in closing he announced that he was due to return a phone call to Mr. David Marchant in Miami (of the Offshore Alert publication), presumably to check out his willingness to appear before the Commission to give evidence -- since he was the person who published the affidavit from Timothy Bass from Chicago, that started the whole briefcase saga.

Since that statement from the Commissioner, a whole lot of “dirty water” has passed under that bridge -- to the extent that some people are quite rightly saying, that the claims and counterclaims, and the statements and open denials between the Commission of Inquiry personnel and Mr. Marchant are such, that the whole thing needs another “Inquiry” to ascertain the facts and point out the way ahead.