Former prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is calling on acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams to clear the air on the status of the police's investigation into Emailgate.
In a letter sent to Williams on Monday, Persad-Bissessar's lawyer, Israel Khan, SC, said the police were "morally and legally wrong" to remain silent on the issue considering the length of the investigation and the fact that they were in possession of email records from Google-central to the controversial investigation.
Khan said: "The general election has "come and gone" and the police are still reluctant to clear the good name of my client.
"Sir, your investigators are in possession of all the 'email threads' requested from Google for the entire month of September 2012 and as far as she is concerned there is not a sintilla of evidence implicating her in the police investigation."
Khan's letter, one of several sent to Williams since the investigation began in 2013, was based on an exclusive report in this newspaper last week which claimed that the investigation had hit a dead end with criminal charges being unlikely.
The report quoted an unnamed source close to the investigation, who said: "Put it this way, we can't prove or disprove the allegations contained in the thread of emails."
While Khan pointed to a lack of evidence from information obtained by investigators from Google, the source quoted in the report had noted that the police investigation was not solely based on the emails but also dealt with the events allegedly discussed in the email thread which was presented by then opposition leader and now Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley in Parliament over two years ago.
"Surely, if there is nothing emanating from those 'email threads' to implicate my client then it is obvious that the police must clear her from any wrong doing," Khan said.The T&T Guardian attempted to contact Williams for a response to Khan's letter but he did not answer calls to his cellphone yesterday evening.
Emailgate history
The Emailgate allegations were first made public by Dr Keith Rowley on May 20, 2013, when he read in Parliament a thread of 31 email messages purporting to be a conversation between four people, whose email accounts bore striking similarities to those of the then prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, then attorney general Anand Ramlogan, then national security advisor Gary Griffith and then government minister Suruj Rambachan.