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                                                                  DAY 214
 
                                           DAVID ROBERTS, Cross-examined:
 
 
 
     1        A.  It may have been.  I have not worked it out.
     2
     3   Q.   Why was it that you were not taking people off the payroll
     4        immediately that they left?
     5        A.  Why did I not do it?
     6
     7   Q.   Yes.  This is something you have criticised Mr. Nevison
     8        for.
     9        A.  Well, I did do it.  I cannot remember what the
    10        situation was at the time that I did not do it.  I do not
    11        recall.
    12
    13   Q.   You could not have logged him off straight after he left,
    14        could you, or even within a week of him leaving?
    15        A.  No, I did not.
    16
    17   Q.   So, why not?
    18        A.  I cannot remember.
    19
    20   Q.   Is that fairly common, or is that, you know -----
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can you refer me -- was it in his evidence or
    23        his statement that Mr. Roberts criticised -----
    24
    25   MS. STEEL:  It is in his statement.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can you refer me to the part?  I know
    28        Mr. Khazna did, but I would like you to refer me to where
    29        Mr. Roberts did.
    30
    31   MS. STEEL:  I am sure it was in there, unless I have -----
    32
    33   MR. RAMPTON:  I do not think it is in his statement.  I did not
    34        think it was.  I asked him a question this morning whether
    35        he had an explanation for those great blocks of zeros that
    36        were found.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  But what he said there -- and this may
    39        be what Ms. Steel had in mind -- he said in answer to you
    40        that he could only assume that the double zeros were for
    41        people not working there but were not taken off the
    42        payroll.  He said he have never done that, because he had
    43        no need to.  Is that the part you had in mind, do you
    44        think?
    45
    46   MS. STEEL:   Yes, it is.
    47
    48   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Very well.
    49
    50   MS. STEEL:  I did actually think it was in his statement as 
    51        well, which I must have confused with Mr. Khazna. 
    52 
    53   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I wondered, in case there was a difference
    54        between Mr. Khazna's evidence and Mr. Taylor's.  At the
    55        moment, I think it is in Mr. Khazna's statement, but not in
    56        Mr. Taylor's, because I reminded myself of what he said
    57        earlier this morning.  You may find it in Mr. Taylor.  It
    58        does not matter, because he said it this morning.
    59
    60        (To the witness)  Is it possible that there is absolutely
 
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