Chief Magistrate Sherman Mc Nicholls today found Opposition Leader in the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament, Basdeo Panday, guilty of filing a knowingly false declaration with regard to his financial interests. In other words, he lied about how much money he has!
The State had employed the services of British Queens Counsel Sir Timothy Cassel and his excellent prosecution of the case provided no other choice for the Chief Magistrate. The State essentially proved that Mr. Panday was clearly aware of the existence of the National Westminster Bank account and had no credible explanation for the source of the funds.
The explanation proffered was of a gift given to him by billionaire industrialist Mr Duprey. On Saturday Mr Duprey's Insurance headquarters was searched by way of a warrant for evidence of the aforesaid payment.
At the moment Mr Panday is seeking bail as he issues an appeal against the verdict.
More worryingly Mr. Panday may have to forfeit his parliamentary seat as laws prohibit a member with a criminal conviction from sitting in Parliament.
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The crooked government have probed and probed into this former Prime minister even before he was the prime minister(not wanting an Indian man to run the so called black country.
Instead of putting their focus on crime,drugs and poor a-- economy.
They need to look into the govermnent now and get to the real problem.