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For some months now there has been persistent parliamentary pressure for some explanation about business ventures which bore the ultimately respectable imprint of Mr Maudling, the deputy Prime Minister and Home Secretary.

When he was chosen for the Home Oince / Maudling was obliged by law to sever his various business directorships. These included very lucrative posts with the international Dunlop rubber monopoly and the powerful merchant banking group, Kleinwort Benson. (Sil Cyril Kleinwort was recently knighted by the Heath governAlthough he had resigned from them by June 1970, two other business associations remained closely connected with Maudling's name.

One was his chairmanship of the Real Estate Fund of America (REFA), an offshore property fund started by American hustler, Jerome D. Hoffman. (Hofiman is now serving two years in a New York penitentiary for charges connected with the fund.)

The other was his chairmanship of International Technical DYKE SHOW.

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CAN BUSINESS AFFORD A CONSCIENCE? and Construction Services, an offshoot of the engineering , and architectural empire of Mr John Poulson, a Yorkshire architect, built up a multi-million pound group which built housing estates and sold its professional services to overseas the Middle Basts, nd Aicularly It was the connection with Poulson that sparked off yesterday's Commons scenes.

Poulson is currently appearing before the Wakefield bankruptcy court under public examination. During one of the hearings this week he revealed the extent of fees paid to Maudling and other advisers, including three MPs.

After giving this evidence Poulson 'collapsed'. He was taken to hospital and later allowed to go home.

Meanwhile the Liberal Party decided to take up the facts which had emerged in the court. Supported by Labour MP, Mr William Hamilton, they want to know how MPs, including Maudling, who is a Privy Councillor, became involved in receiving exorbitant fees from the Poulson empire.

In court Poulson disclosed that he made payments of £334,722 over eight years. These included:

£22,000 to the Adeline Genee Theatre Trust, East Grinstead— £8,000 a year at Maudling's request to his wife's favourite charity, instead of his salary as chairman of International Technical and Construction Services, one of Poulson's firms.

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WAY. in conRobert Mrs Maudling was president of the production company which went into liquidation in 1968. The last payment made by Poulson was in March, 1969.

Referring to payments made to the Adeline Genee Trust, Poulson said it was a deed taken out by him at Maudling's request instead of payments made to him as chairman of ITCS. He wanted to help this theatre fund of his wife's and he preferred it to be done this way. read in read in court which said: "I A letter from Maudling was enclose another covenant as arranged. I would be most grateful if you could arrange for it to be sent to the Trust before we leave for Liberia.

(Maudling's offshore venture, REFA, was registered in Liberia).

£155,518 to I. Dan Smith, then chairman of the Northern Economic Planning Council.

(Last year Smith, a leading figure in the Labour Party hierarchy, was acquitted at the Old Bailey on corruption charges.) •£11,508 to Albert Roberts, Labour MP for Normanton, for help with a contract for hospital building in Spain.

Referring to the sum given to Roberts, Poulson said that he seemed very friendly with the Spanish and Portuguese governments.

He was recommended to him by the Spanish authorities as a person who might be able to help with a contract he had got for building a hospital in Spain.

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Roberts is an NUM-sponsored MP. • £21,419 to W. G. Pottinger, permanent secretary of the Department of Agriculture at the Scottish office. This included about £10,000 expenses while building 'him a £20,000 house. He also provided him with a Rover car, but denied paying £90 for him to have a suit made at his personal tailors. • £5,928 to John Cordle, Tory MP for and secretary Bot The House oft, onmons Anglo-Nigerian group.

He is a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Commission on Evangelism, a director of the Church of England Newspaper and freeman of the City of London.

£2,972 to A. J. Merritt, who retired in 1968 as the Minstry of Health's principal officer with the Leeds Regional Hospital Board. In a letter Poulson asked Maudling to arrange a cruise for Merritt who had been 'extremely helpful'. • £21,666 to the late Sir Herbert Butcher, MP for Boston and Holland, Lincs. • A private car for his brother C. A. Poulson, then manager of Barclays Bank in Horbury.

The Liberals' attack is not the first time they have barked at Maudling's heels. On February 21 last, John Pardoe asked the Attorney-General, Sir Peter Rawlinson, 'when he expects to receive the report of the Director of Public Prosecutions about the International Investors Group or Reginald Maudling (right) listens intently to his former business partner Jerome D. Hoffman, who is now serving a two-year jail sentence in New York its subsidiaries'.

(IIG was the parent management company • of the Real Estate Fund of America. It was registered in Britain and Maud-. ling, Lord Brentford, a former Tory, Minister, and his son, Crispin Joynson-Hicks, were all directors.)

Rawlinson's written • reply was sensational-although it was unreported by the capitalist press. He admitted: 'An investigation into the affairs of the Group and its subsidiaries by the police and investigators of the Department of Trade and Industry, in consultation with counsel, is progressing. When these investigations have been completed, a report will be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for his consideration.' In other words the Scotland Yard fraud squad and John Davies' department are actively investigating the companies once presided over by the Home Secretaryl So far there is no hint if the DPP, Sir Norman Skelhorn, has received the papers or whether he intends to launch prosecutions.

Meanwhile, in the United States, civil action has been taken against the fund's founder, Jerome D. Hofiman, and the British directors. A civil action is still pending in New York in which Maudling, Brentford and Joynson-Hicks are named in a $10m fraud case.

Yesterday's rumblings in parliament may be only the start of much wider and more explosive politically expi osive developments.