Three of the men charged along­side Port-of-Spain South MP Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald once again failed to ac­cess bail on Tues­day, con­demn­ing them to an­oth­er night in jail.

Michael Carew, 72, Wayne An­tho­ny and Edgar Zephyrine were un­able to se­cure re­lease from prison yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, as their bail ap­pli­ca­tions were not processed late yes­ter­day.

Vic­tor McEachrane, whose wife Cheryl McEachrane stood his bail, was the on­ly one able to se­cure bail to the sum of $400,000 af­ter their late hear­ing in the Port-of-Spain Eight Court be­fore Chief Mag­is­trate Maria Bus­by Ear­le-Cad­dle on Mon­day.

McEachrane, of La Floris­sante in D’Abadie and Sou Sou Lands, To­ba­go, faces six charges in the mat­ter.

At­tor­neys for Carew and Wayne An­tho­ny, Se­nior Coun­sel Pamela El­der and Frank Pe­ter­son re­spec­tive­ly not­ed that the bail pro­cess­ing ap­peared to be a bit slow as the bailors did their re­spec­tive checks on the deeds pre­sent­ed to se­cure bail for the ac­cused.

Carew faced eight charges ­—five for mon­ey laun­der­ing and three for con­spir­a­cy to de­fraud the state of T&T. He was placed on $500,000 bail.

Zephyrine, 75, of Flagstaff Hill, St James faced 28 charges — one con­spir­a­cy charge and 27 of­fences of mon­ey laun­der­ing. He was placed on bail to the sum $1 mil­lion. He like McEachrane had at­tempt­ed to use his wife as a sure­ty, but Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard ob­ject­ed due to her em­ploy­ment at the Min­istry of Fi­nance.

An­tho­ny, 66, of San­ta Mar­gari­ta, St. Au­gus­tine, faced one charge of mon­ey laun­der­ing was placed on $100,000 bail.

A few of the friends and fam­i­ly showed up out­side the Port-of-Spain Prison on Fred­er­ick Street at var­i­ous points dur­ing the day, hope­ful that the men would se­cure re­lease, but as the day went on they left dis­ap­point­ed.

The three men were ex­pect­ed to be moved from the Port-of-Spain prison in­fir­mary to the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison yes­ter­day.

Mc­Don­ald, Carew, McEachrane, An­tho­ny and Zephyrine face a to­tal of 49 charges stem­ming from fraud and mon­ey laun­der­ing of­fences com­mit­ted from 2010 to 2017.

They are ex­pect­ed to reap­pear in court on Sep­tem­ber 9.