Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Stephen Williams said yes­ter­day he had no in­for­ma­tion on whether Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard had passed a file to po­lice in­volv­ing the T&T Box­ing Board of Con­trol (TTB­BC).The file was sent to the DPP by the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion af­ter a com­plaint by box­ing pro­mot­er Ri­car­do Phillip in­volv­ing Sport Min­is­ter Anil Roberts, per­ma­nent sec­re­tary Ash­win Creed and the board's spe­cial ad­vis­er Boxu Potts.

Asked whether the po­lice had ob­tained a file from the DPP, Williams said he did not know. He said he could not find out or treat the is­sue as a mat­ter of pri­or­i­ty be­cause he was head­ing in­to a meet­ing that would take a few hours. In a let­ter, ti­tled "In­ves­ti­ga­tions by the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion in­to com­plaint against the T&T Box­ing Board of Con­trol," sent to Phillip on March 14, the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion said it had com­plet­ed its in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to al­le­ga­tions lev­elled by Phillip in De­cem­ber 2011.

Phillip had lodged com­plaints with the com­mis­sion against Roberts, per­ma­nent sec­re­tary Ash­win Creed and board spe­cial ad­vis­er Boxu Potts.In re­sponse, the com­mis­sion's reg­is­trar, Mar­tin Far­rell, said: "In keep­ing with the re­quire­ments of sec­tion 31 (1) of the In­tegri­ty in Pub­lic Act Chap­ter 22:01, the com­mis­sion has re­ferred this mat­ter to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions."

At last week's post-Cab­i­net me­dia brief­ing, Roberts de­nied he was un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion and said he had re­ceived a let­ter from the com­mis­sion's le­gal coun­sel say­ing he was not be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed.He al­so threat­ened to sue sev­er­al me­dia hous­es, in­clud­ing the T&T Guardian, Ex­press and I95.5 FM.Gas­pard could not be reached for com­ment yes­ter­day, as calls to his mo­bile phone went unan­swered.

The com­mis­sion's le­gal ad­vis­er Mar­lon Sam­bucha­ran yes­ter­day de­clined com­ment and re­ferred all ques­tions to chief com­mu­ni­ca­tions and pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer Mervyn Crichlow.How­ev­er, Crichlow al­so could not be reached for com­ment as calls went unan­swered. In a pre­vi­ous in­ter­view, Crichlow said Roberts, Creed and Potts were not be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed al­though al­le­ga­tions in­volv­ing the TTB­BC were passed to the DPP.

Flash­back

In an in­ter­view last week, box­ing pro­mot­er Tans­ley Thomp­son said the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion must ex­plain what as­pect of its in­ves­ti­ga­tions was re­ferred to the DPP.Thomp­son, who staged protests last De­cem­ber, along with Phillip, said he was con­fused over the mat­ter since Roberts, Creed and Potts were specif­i­cal­ly named in the com­plaint let­ter.He not­ed while the al­le­ga­tions un­fold­ed, peo­ple with ex­cep­tion­al tal­ent were drop­ping out of the box­ing fra­ter­ni­ty.

Thomp­son said two box­ers from north Trinidad, who had shown promise, were now back in prison.He al­so said he was hop­ing to have box­ers Lisa Brown and Tarique Ab­dul Haque box for the up­com­ing Bor­ough Day cel­e­bra­tions. How­ev­er, he added, be­cause there was no board in place since last No­vem­ber it was dif­fi­cult to get a box­ing card to pro­mote the youths.

"Bor­ough Day is five weeks away and young peo­ple are suf­fer­ing. I am hop­ing good sense will pre­vail and they will ap­point a board with peo­ple of in­tegri­ty who will up­hold box­ing," Thomp­son added.He said Ab­dul Haque re­fused to fight again be­cause he had is­sues with the for­mer box­ing board.

"We are hop­ing they will let good sense pre­vail and let Tarique make his de­but be­cause he has a Com­mon­wealth ti­tle and a medal, yet he re­fused to fight. These prob­lems are not serv­ing box­ing and it is not in the in­ter­est of box­ing," Thomp­son added.