Extradition Proceedings Begin With Suave Silence

HE ARRIVED windswept but defiant, swathed in an elegant camel coat and flanked by a high-profile barrister better known as a crown prosecutor than a defender. "I would very much like to say something, oh very much indeed. I cannot for now . . . but later at another time." And with a polite smile, Philip de Figueiredo, one of the alleged players in the offshore tax schemes allegedly used by Paul Hogan, Glenn Wheatley and other wealthy Australians, yesterday entered the Magistrate's Court in Jersey.