Post Date: 14th Mar, 2010 - 4:07am / Post ID:
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Calder Hart Udecott
Apparently he is back in Trinidad after a controversial resignation. What are your thoughts about this scandal?
QUOTE ATTORNEY GENERAL, John Jeremie said he could not confirm whether or not ex-Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (UDeCOTT) chairman Calder Hart has returned to this country.
In a telephone interview yesterday, Jeremie said he would not comment on the issue adding that what he said during the press conference on March 10 was all that he could say on the topic.
When asked what would be the next step as regards Hart, Jeremie said he could not say what the next step would be, again saying he had nothing further to add to what he said during the March 10 press conference.
"The Attorney General does not prosecute, that is a matter for the DPP (Director of Public Prosecutions)" Jeremie said, adding that DPP Roger Gaspard was out of the country and would not be back until tomorrow night.
Reports are that Hart returned to T&T on Friday night but was spirited away from Piarco International Airport through the south entrance, evading members of the media who were camped out at the airport, awaiting his arrival.
Attempts yesterday to reach Hart's lawyer, Devesh Maharaj, were unsuccessful. Maharaj had said in a a press release issued on March 9, that Hart had given the assurance to the relevant authorities that he was ready to return home to T&T at short notice, if required. Maharaj's release added that "Mr Hart has no reason to flee the country....
Post Date: 28th Jan, 2011 - 2:43am / Post ID:
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Udecott Hart Calder
According to the news some days ago, the police is trying to get the financial records relating to former Udecott chairman Calder Hart.
QUOTE POLICE this week served court orders on bank officials calling for financial records relating to former Udecott chairman Calder Hart, after an application was lodged in secret in the High Court by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on behalf of a team of investigators.
As a probe into the former Udecott chairman quietly intensified, the police closed-in on crucial bank records which could be key in unravelling a web of issues surrounding Udecott's $1.1 billion Brian Lara Cricket Academy at Tarouba.
Sunday Newsday understands the court orders were obtained by the police after an ex parte application was lodged by the DPP under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Last Tuesday, officers were able to serve the court orders - sometimes referred to as production orders - calling on banking officials to make available records pertaining to Hart after the DPP invoked Section 9 of the Act....