Death threats are al­leged­ly be­ing made against an in­spec­tor who un­earthed cor­rup­tion in the Build­ing In­spec­tor De­part­ment at the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that dur­ing the cor­po­ra­tion’s statu­to­ry meet­ing on Thurs­day, the cur­rent build­ing in­spec­tor re­vealed that he re­ceived death threats via phone call due to an in­ves­ti­ga­tion he was spear­head­ing.

The nexus be­hind the threats comes from al­le­ga­tions that a re­al es­tate de­vel­op­er was giv­en a build­ing com­ple­tion cer­tifi­cate for parcels of land with­out build­ing ap­provals, Town and Coun­try ap­provals and no ap­proval from the Chief Med­ical Of­fice.

The probe in­to the al­le­ga­tions start­ed when a le­gal let­ter was sent to the cor­po­ra­tion from some­one who was in­ter­est­ed in pur­chas­ing one of the prop­er­ties be­ing of­fered for sale by the de­vel­op­er.

The let­ter, dat­ed June 18, 2021, from an at­tor­ney-at-law from Hob­sons law firm, sought to ver­i­fy the au­then­tic­i­ty of the build­ing com­ple­tion cer­tifi­cate.

Guardian Me­dia was able to get a copy of the let­ter and emails be­tween at­tor­neys and the cor­po­ra­tion’s for­mer build­ing in­spec­tor call­ing for the au­then­ti­ca­tion of the com­ple­tion cer­tifi­cate for the prop­er­ties.

Guardian Me­dia al­so ob­tained copies of two of the al­leged build­ing com­ple­tion cer­tifi­cates is­sued on Oc­to­ber 11, 2020. The doc­u­ments bear the sig­na­tures of all the bor­ough cor­po­ra­tion of­fi­cials re­quired for such doc­u­ments.

In Feb­ru­ary, the mat­ter was raised on the Streets, Build­ings and De­vel­op­ment Com­mit­tee dur­ing a ses­sion cov­er­ing a pe­ri­od from 2019. Guardian Me­dia al­so ob­tained the min­utes of that meet­ing.

The sub­sec­tion of the min­utes stat­ed that a let­ter dat­ed June 18, 2021, from an at­tor­ney at Hob­son to the then-build­ing in­spec­tor of the cor­po­ra­tion had re­quest­ed writ­ten con­fir­ma­tion of the au­then­tic­i­ty of a Com­ple­tion Cer­tifi­cate for a prop­er­ty in Cunu­pia, Ch­agua­nas.

In the min­utes, the Build­ing In­spec­tor stat­ed that the top of the doc­u­ment was true but the bot­tom of it was false. He al­so not­ed dis­crep­an­cies with the cer­tifi­cate reg­is­tra­tion num­ber, ap­pli­ca­tion num­ber and the Town and Coun­try num­ber. He con­clud­ed, there­fore, that it was a fraud­u­lent doc­u­ment and sug­gest­ed a copy of the let­ter be sent to the Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice and TTPS Fraud Squad.

In that meet­ing, Al­der­man Kar­ran Nan­coo in­di­cat­ed that a re­sponse should al­so be sent to Hob­sons and oth­ers.

The Build­ing In­spec­tor in­di­cat­ed that he would make all aware that the doc­u­ment was fraud­u­lent and the next step would be to for­ward this cor­re­spon­dence to the po­lice.

How­ev­er, Guardian Me­dia was told the mat­ter was nev­er re­port­ed to the Fraud Squad. The build­ing in­spec­tor has al­so since re­tired.

The mat­ter was raised again in the statu­to­ry coun­cil meet­ing on Thurs­day, with mem­bers in shock that it was nev­er brought to the at­ten­tion of the po­lice.

The prop­er­ties in ques­tion were placed on the cor­po­ra­tion’s radar in Au­gust this year, af­ter it was said the Com­ple­tion Cer­tifi­cate and oth­er ap­provals were fraud­u­lent.

Con­tact­ed on the mat­ter yes­ter­day, Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed said he is aware of it, not­ing an ac­tive in­ves­ti­ga­tion was now un­der­way by the po­lice.

The cur­rent build­ing in­spec­tor and cor­po­ra­tion CEO are al­so card­ed to send of­fi­cial cor­re­spon­dence to law en­force­ment on the mat­ter.

Guardian Me­dia ob­tained num­bers for the name of the in­di­vid­u­als on the cer­tifi­cate. How­ev­er, none of the num­bers work.