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Min­is­ter of Sport Anil Roberts yes­ter­day re­it­er­at­ed his call for An­tho­ny Har­ford, chair­man of the T&T Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion's Au­tho­riza­tion Com­mit­tee, to pro­vide copies of bills, re­ceipts and in­voic­es, to col­lab­o­rate ac­counts, which the au­di­tor gen­er­al has re­quest­ed.

Re­spond­ing to both fi­nan­cial di­rec­tor of All Sport Pro­mo­tions Bruce Aa­nensen and Har­ford (SEE PAGE 63), who one day pri­or had claimed that all ac­counts were in or­der, Roberts in­sist­ed that bills and oth­er forms of ev­i­dence to sup­port ac­counts pro­vid­ed, have not been sub­mit­ted, de­spite re­quests from the au­di­tor gen­er­al through the per­ma­nent sec­re­tary in the Sport Min­istry, Ash­win Creed.

He al­so de­scribed Aa­nensen's re­marks as "fast and out of place," since his min­istry had no deal­ings with All Sport, but was deal­ing with Har­ford in his ca­pac­i­ty as chair­man of the T&T Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion's Au­tho­riza­tion Com­mit­tee.

Roberts held a me­dia con­fer­ence at the Min­istry of Sport, Aber­crom­by Street, and claimed that the fi­nal ac­counts sub­mit­ted by Har­ford in Jan­u­ary in­clud­ed cer­tain ques­tion­able charges.

He al­leged that a pay­ment made to Har­ford which was sup­posed to cater for salaries, has not been paid.

Roberts said the au­di­tor gen­er­al has is­sues with the man­ner in which funds were dis­trib­uted to the TTFF, and man­age­ment fees to All Sport Pro­mo­tions.

Roberts dis­trib­uted the most re­cent let­ter to Har­ford, dat­ed yes­ter­day, in which he again called for in­voic­es, bills and re­ceipts for the 24 items of ex­pen­di­ture list­ed in the state­ment.

The let­ter stat­ed: "You would re­call that in your let­ter re­ceived Sep­tem­ber 27, 2012, you in­di­cat­ed that I ac­knowl­edge re­ceipt of the ac­counts, which pro­vide full de­tails of ex­pen­di­ture along with in­voic­es, bills and re­ceipts.

"To date, all you have pro­vid­ed is an ex­pen­di­ture state­ment with no sup­port­ing doc­u­ments. In ad­di­tion, the au­di­tor gen­er­al has al­so queried the au­thor­i­ty for pay­ments of month­ly ex­pens­es to TTFF and man­age­ment fees to All Sport Pro­mo­tions."