Renu­ka Singh

Sev­er­al high-pro­file in­ves­ti­ga­tions are ex­pect­ed to be fi­nalised this week by the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP).

The Sun­day Guardian un­der­stands that DPP Roger Gas­pard is ex­pect­ed to de­liv­er his de­ter­mi­na­tion on the in­ves­ti­ga­tions of for­mer Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship plan­ning min­is­ter Mary King, for­mer Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) fi­nance min­is­ter Karen Nunez-Tesheira and for­mer com­mu­ni­ty de­vel­op­ment and cul­ture min­is­ter Joan Yuille-Williams.

King's mat­ter has been be­fore the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion and then the DPP's of­fice since she was fired by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in 2011, af­ter award­ing a $100,000 con­tract to Ix­anos Lim­it­ed, a com­pa­ny in which King and her hus­band, Dr St Clair King, are the main share­hold­ers.

King was fired from Gov­ern­ment af­ter serv­ing just un­der a year when it was re­vealed that the con­tract was award­ed with­out the prop­er ten­der­ing process.

It was King who wrote to the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion in a bid to clear her name in 2011 and the in­ves­ti­ga­tions have con­tin­ued since then.

While there is lit­tle in­for­ma­tion com­ing out of the DPP's of­fice, peo­ple with knowl­edge of the case say they ex­pect King to be cleared, al­though ini­tial­ly there was be­lieved to be strong ev­i­dence in a sworn af­fi­davit by King's for­mer per­ma­nent sec­re­tary.

In the Nunez-Tesheira case, the Sun­day Guardian un­der­stands that the in­ves­tiga­tive file has been sent to the DPP's of­fice since 2011 but needs more work and may be re­sub­mit­ted to the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion for fur­ther pe­riph­er­al in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

In 2009, the for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter with­drew her mon­ey from the now de­funct CLI­CO In­vest­ment Bank (CIB), which was a sub­sidiary of the col­lapsed CL Fi­nan­cial con­glom­er­ate. It was re­port­ed back in 2011 that Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship Food Pro­duc­tion Min­is­ter De­vant Ma­haraj wrote to the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion re­quest­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to Nunez-Tesheira's ac­tions. He al­leged she, as then min­is­ter of fi­nance, im­prop­er­ly used her knowl­edge of Cli­co's ad­verse sit­u­a­tion to her ben­e­fit.