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Monday, August 18, 2025

Warner pays $.2m to settle Faaiq lawsuit

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Coun­cil­lor Faaiq Mo­hammed yes­ter­day re­ceived a $275,000 cheque from em­bat­tled In­de­pen­dent Lib­er­al Par­ty leader (ILP) Jack Warn­er.

The pay­ment was to sat­is­fy dam­ages award­ed by the High Court in Mo­hammed's favour, in a law­suit he won on Ju­ly 24, 2014.

The cheque, dat­ed June 30, 2015, was pre­sent­ed to Mo­hammed by a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Warn­er.

Mo­hammed was ac­cused by Warn­er of be­ing cor­rupt and ac­cept­ing a bribe of $2.5 mil­lion from the UNC to cast a vote for one of its can­di­dates in­stead of the ILP in the 2013 by-elec­tion.

Yes­ter­day, Mo­hammed in a writ­ten state­ment ex­plained that since the judg­ment was de­liv­ered, he had been try­ing to get Warn­er to com­ply with the court or­der and pay him.

Last month, Mo­hammed ini­ti­at­ed le­gal ac­tion to re­cov­er some $262,000 which the High Court or­dered that Warn­er pay him for mak­ing defam­a­to­ry state­ments.

Warn­er's at­tor­neys, how­ev­er, con­tend­ed that the judg­ment had been ap­pealed.

"Warn­er re­cent­ly at­tacked me at a po­lit­i­cal meet­ing when I an­nounced that I had filed an ap­pli­ca­tion in court to have him de­clared bank­rupt."

Mo­hammed said Warn­er called him an id­iot and clown from Ch­agua­nas West.

"Whilst I am grate­ful for the pay­ment, I am dis­ap­point­ed that such a wealthy man would have tak­en over a year to pay such a rel­a­tive­ly small debt which was caused by his own base­less, ma­li­cious and out­ra­geous at­tacks on my char­ac­ter and in­tegri­ty. No amount of mon­ey can ever com­pen­sate me for the dam­age done to my char­ac­ter and rep­u­ta­tion. I want­ed to ex­pose the fraud­u­lent, bold-faced and shame­less char­ac­ter as­sas­si­na­tion that has be­come a trade­mark of Warn­er's gut­ter pol­i­tics."

Mo­hammed said the rushed pay­ment by Warn­er was de­signed to avoid levy pro­ceed­ings, which he had filed in the High Court last week.

"That levy would have been ex­e­cut­ed on the as­sets of Warn­er in the com­ing week as my at­tor­neys were in the process of com­plet­ing the nec­es­sary means and as­sets search."


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