Ja­maican Queen's Coun­sel, Vin­cent Nel­son has been charged with three counts of con­spir­a­cy to cor­rupt­ly dis­trib­ute le­gal fees.

He ap­peared be­fore Maria Bus­by Ear­le-Cad­dle in the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate's Court this morn­ing.

The charges were laid by the An­ti Cor­rup­tion In­ves­ti­ga­tion Bu­reau.

Nel­son was re­leased on $100,000 own bail af­ter there were no ob­jec­tions from the State.

When the mat­ter was called, Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard asked that it be sent to the High Court for a plea agree­ment to be heard with­in in a month.

The charges are al­leged to have oc­curred be­tween Oc­to­ber 1, 2010 to Sep­tem­ber 9, 2015.

The de­vel­op­ment comes one day af­ter for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan and UNC sen­a­tor Ger­ald Ramdeen were ar­rest­ed and their homes searched.

They were both iden­ti­fied in the con­spir­a­cy charges against Nel­son.

Nel­son is ex­pect­ed to be the key wit­ness against Ram­lo­gan and Ramdeen.

We will have more on this lat­er.