Presumption of seized-document ownership cannot justify speculative alteration; corroboration required, so additions were deleted.

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....Presumption as to ownership of seized material does not permit altering recorded figures in seized documents without independent corroboration; speculative reconstruction of numeric entries (adding two zeros) is inadmissible and additions under unexplained investment and consequential interest founded solely on that hypothesis are deleted. Entries on loose sheets described as estimates likewise lack corroboration and cannot support additions, and a retracted statement under seizure has no standalone evidentiary value. Result: deletions of additions based on speculative diary alteration and uncorroborated loose-sheet entries; ownership of the diary acknowledged but cannot substitute for independent proof.....