JavaScript is disabled in your web browser or browser is too old to support JavaScript. Today almost all web pages contain JavaScript, a scripting programming language that runs on visitor's web browser. It makes web pages functional for specific purposes and if disabled for some reason, the content or the functionality of the web page can be limited or unavailable.

Sunday, July 27, 2025

DPP: No A&V Drilling file from cops yet

by

Mark Bassant
2272 days ago
20190507
Roger Gaspard

Roger Gaspard

No po­lice file has been sub­mit­ted to Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard on the A&V Drilling al­leged “fake oil” is­sue.

Gas­pard con­firmed the sit­u­a­tion via a What­sApp re­sponse on ques­tions about the in­ves­ti­ga­tion’s sta­tus yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing state­ment by Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley on Mon­day in Par­lia­ment.

While re­spond­ing to Op­po­si­tion ques­tions in Par­lia­ment about the foren­sic au­dit in­to the A&V Drilling/oil is­sue on Mon­day, Row­ley said, “Petrotrin con­clud­ed this process not on­ly by us­ing the tech­ni­cal ex­per­tise but se­nior coun­sel to col­late and re­spond to the al­le­ga­tions and all of those mat­ters, all of that doc­u­men­ta­tion, all of those re­ports are in the pos­ses­sion of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions.”

A&V had been ac­cused of re­ceiv­ing some US$11.5 mil­lion from Petrotrin af­ter al­leged­ly re­port­ing an in­ac­cu­rate amount of crude oil de­liv­ered to the Petrotrin re­fin­ery in 2017. The find­ings were re­vealed in an in­ter­nal au­dit claim that was ex­posed by the Op­po­si­tion in 2017.

Gas­pard ac­knowl­edged, how­ev­er, that his of­fice did ob­tain a file from Petrotrin and his of­fice would al­so give ad­vice as need­ed.

“A file was sub­mit­ted and I for­ward­ed it to the po­lice for in­ves­ti­ga­tion. There are no in­ves­ti­ga­tions at my of­fice. From time to time my of­fice has pro­vid­ed the po­lice with ad­vice-some­times as they re­quest it and some­times when I think it is nec­es­sary,” he said.

The DPP made it clear that the po­lice had not sub­mit­ted any file in re­la­tion to this mat­ter to date.

“The mat­ter is with the po­lice. No file has been sub­mit­ted. Files are sub­mit­ted af­ter an in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been com­plet­ed. This in­ves­ti­ga­tion has not been com­plet­ed.”


Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored