A Mt D’or Road, Champs Fleurs man was grant­ed bail af­ter ap­pear­ing in court on a charge of bribery re­lat­ed to the April 28, Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Clyde Mansano, 46, ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Kim­i­tria Gray on Mon­day (May 5). He was grant­ed bail on his own recog­ni­sance and is sched­uled to re­turn to court on June 5, 2025.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­port yes­ter­day from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), Mansano was ar­rest­ed on April 28 and charged on May 2 with bribery un­der Sec­tion 96(2)(a) of the Rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the Peo­ple Act, Chap­ter 2:01.

Po­lice claimed that around 9.40 am on Mon­day, a po­lice of­fi­cer, act­ing on in­for­ma­tion re­ceived, in­ter­cept­ed a ve­hi­cle on Mt D’or Road. 

The dri­ver was al­leged­ly ob­served of­fer­ing and pay­ing in­di­vid­u­als be­tween $300 and $400 to vote for a par­tic­u­lar par­ty.

The of­fi­cer iden­ti­fied him­self and in­formed the dri­ver of his sus­pi­cion. Po­lice said the man claimed he had been paid $800 to dri­ve and that the funds he had were from a “sou sou.” 

He then pro­duced $30,000 from his pock­et, which po­lice said was lat­er seized.

The TTPS said on April 30 that the Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Branch (FIB) con­duct­ed a cash seizure op­er­a­tion, where $30,000 was con­fis­cat­ed from the man’s pos­ses­sion.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was led by Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Suzette Mar­tin, with as­sis­tance from As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­ers Richard Smith and Rishi Singh and Se­nior Supt Michael Pierre. It was su­per­vised by In­spec­tor Pierre, Le­gal Of­fi­cer Sergeant An­dre George, and Sgt New­ton.