At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan yes­ter­day de­clined to com­ment on the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the Drug En­force­ment Ad­min­stra­tion in­to the $644 mil­lion co­caine bust in Vir­ginia last De­cem­ber.He said: "That is a mat­ter of rather sen­si­tive and del­i­cate con­sti­tu­tion. It in­volves in­ter-gov­ern­men­tal re­la­tion­ships and all I can say is the Cen­tral Au­thor­i­ty, which falls un­der my ju­ris­dic­tion, re­mains poised, will­ing and able to as­sist and to con­tin­ue to as­sist in this in­ves­ti­ga­tion."

Ram­lo­gan al­so de­clined to state whether any ex­tra­di­tion or­ders were re­quest­ed by US au­thor­i­ties for any sus­pects in the case.The drugs were seized at the Port of Nor­folk on De­cem­ber 20 by US Cus­toms and Bor­der Pro­tec­tion of­fi­cers, but they on­ly made it pub­lic on Jan­u­ary 16. The drugs were hid­den in over 700 tins of Trinidad Juice, man­u­fac­tured by Cit­rus Grow­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion, a sub­sidiary of SM Jaleel.

DEA of­fi­cers ar­rived in T&T last month to tie up their in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the mat­ter on this end and have been re­ceiv­ing sup­port from lo­cal law en­force­ment of­fi­cers.