Former members of the Serious Fraud Office in the UK, who have spent most of their careers prosecuting complex fraud and corruption cases, were also brought into T&T to be part of the special unit. It took a team of more than two dozen forensic officers, who are housed at Tower C at the International Waterfront Centre in Port-of-Spain, to bring the investigation to this stage, the sources told Guardian Media.
Some 32 forensic officers from Deloitte and Touche, who also worked on the Clico investigation, are also part of the team.
TT$1.5 Billion could make a lot of lawyers very rich.
Ah wonder how the notorious Sarge from Abercromby St. missed this one.
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BTW Sarge be very careful from now on. As yuh slip is capaud smoke yuh pipe.
Justice Gobin seems to think you and fellow social media commentators "are not immune from being sued for defamation".
This is a defamation action plain and simple," she added.
Justice Gobin's award is a reminder that Trinidad and Tobago's commenters on Facebook and other platforms are not immune from being sued for damages.
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Charlotte Street Headley
This is T&T, they are trying to prosecute Liars..Lawyers.
This will be in the Court system for over a decade plus,
now, the only ones who will come out off this rich is the Brit Senior Lawyers at the expense of the Taxpayers.
When it reaches the Privy Council two decades from now,
it will be dismissed based on some idiot in T&T didn't fill out the proper paperwork.
The defence work will be pro bono and the Others will
get tax payers money.
Lawyers win. Citizens lose.
"On another level the PNM is known for distractions. We recall before elections they charged Basdeo Panday, before elections things found in Sadiq Baksh's water tank. So there is a history of this. And I do believe the PNM is in desperation mode. They are in a panic.
Rowley administration is searching for a way to distract the public's attention away from their record of failure over the last four years. The Rowley administration is characterised by incompetence, corruption, massive unemployment and runaway crime," "
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Charlotte Street Headley
With T&T dollars over valued by 45% its peanuts.
I can borrow some from Jack.
Some 32 forensic officers from Deloitte and Touche, who also worked on the Clico investigation, are also part of the team.
How many were charged in the above?
Meanwhile, Pamela Elder, SC, who is representing Ramlogan, is questioning the police’s conduct in the ongoing investigation into corruption allegations against him.
She said: “You don’t arrest a man and 14 hours later you search his home. Common sense will tell you that you should have had the evidence in hand before you arrested him.”
Elder also complained over the fact that investigators had not interrogated Ramlogan up to that time, although he was detained while attempting to board a flight bound for the British Virgin Islands (BVI) early yesterday. She described the officers’ conduct as oppressive.
The defence wins based on stupidity
