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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A court ordered Malaysia's government to pay a 69-year-old British man $857,000 for seizing his passport and preventing him from leaving the country for almost 17 years, news reports and an official said Friday.
Ronald Beadle's passport was confiscated by the Inland Revenue Department in December 1981 after authorities claimed he had failed to settle income tax payments while working in Malaysia, The Star and New Straits Times newspapers reported.
The High Court cleared Beadle of the allegations in 1998 and said he was free to reclaim his passport.
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