Chair­man of the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Anil Juter­am has de­nied re­ports that of­fi­cers at­tached to the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion In­ves­ti­ga­tion Bu­reau (ACIB) searched the of­fices of the cor­po­ra­tion on Fri­day. He said the pres­ence of po­lice of­fi­cers on the com­pound had noth­ing to do with a re­cent court ap­pear­ance by Coun­cil­lor Anil Ma­haraj.

Ma­haraj, the rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Cu­mu­to/Tamana, was re­leased on $130,000 bail af­ter mak­ing his first court ap­pear­ance on Fri­day af­ter be­ing charged with mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice. He ap­peared be­fore Port-of-Spain mag­is­trate Mau­reen Ba­boolal-Gafoor.

The cor­po­ra­tion has dis­tanced it­self from the al­le­ga­tions made against Ma­haraj.