Works Minister Dr Suruj Rambachan said yesterday that Google International has told him the e-mails presented by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley in the House on May 20, and their corresponding IP addresses, do not exist.Speaking to members of the media after a site visit to the Golconda leg of the San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway, Rambachan said he was provided with this response by Google after he had written to them.
As such, he said he could come to no other conclusion that the e-mails were indeed fabricated."One must go by what the CoP has said, that this is a big fake or big fabrication," Rambachan said, in reference to acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams' recent statement recently that the e-mails were fake."The people who bear false witness against others, not only is it a spiritual sin, but it's also a secular sin and a criminal sin," he said.
"Those who do that kind of thing must be taken before the courts of law and be made to pay the penalty for trying to damage the good character of other people."During a motion no confidence against Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on May 20, Rowley presented 31 e-mails to the House.
The e-mails were purported to have come from addresses allegedly belonging to the PM, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal and Rambachan, and discussed intentions to tap the phone of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the intimidation of the Guardian journalist who broke the story about the early proclamation of Section 34 of the Administration of Justice (Indictable Proceedings) Act 2011.
Persad-Bissessar, Rambachan and their colleagues have denied any knowledge of the e-mails and repeatedly said they were fabricated, but the PM mandated Williams to probe the matter. The acting CoP in turn ordered DCP Mervyn Richardson to head a team to investigate the matter, which is ongoing.Yesterday, Rambachan said his lawyer still had his electronic devices but said the police could have them once they could assure him of the security and safety of his private information.
"The police can have them as soon as they develop the protocol how they are going to treat with all my private information on my computer and cellphone," he said.Richardson has said the only devices he has in his possession so far are those belonging to the PM's security adviser Gary Griffith.