For­mer SporTT di­rec­tor Im­ran Jan has ques­tioned the find­ings of an au­dit by Price­Wa­ter­house­C­oop­ers in­to the op­er­a­tions of the State com­pa­ny which point­ed to pos­si­ble col­lu­sion, con­flict of in­ter­est and leak­ing of con­fi­den­tial in­for­ma­tion.

Ac­com­pa­nied by at­tor­ney Ger­ald Ramdeen, the for­mer di­rec­tor who spent two years at the or­gan­i­sa­tion chal­lenged sev­er­al find­ings of the re­port. He al­so in­struct­ed Ramdeen to write to PWC “to clar­i­fy the po­si­tion with re­spect to this mat­ter (and) the con­tents of what has been re­port­ed in the pub­lic do­main.”

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion from the au­di­tors point­ed to al­leged col­lu­sion be­tween the for­mer SporTT Com­pa­ny di­rec­tor and the cur­rent T&T Crick­et Board pres­i­dent, Az­im Bas­sarath. The re­port said he at­tempt­ed to in­flu­ence the pro­vi­sion of SportTT fund­ing to the TTCB.

Jan was al­so un­der scruti­ny for shar­ing con­fi­den­tial doc­u­ments with Bas­sarath which stat­ed how much was paid by SporTT to the TTCB and spend­ing over his ap­proved lim­it.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion al­so un­cov­ered au­dio files, which the oth­er par­ties were not aware were be­ing record­ed.

In re­sponse, Jan said he could not have ex­ceed­ed his spend­ing ap­proval lim­it as the PWC re­port stat­ed as there is no lim­it for di­rec­tors. In­stead, Jan stat­ed, “At no point, we have lim­its be­cause I’m not a sig­na­to­ry. I was not a sig­na­to­ry on a cheque, I can’t pay the TTCB any mon­ey. What we do is ap­prove…based on salaries, based on ex­pens­es that each Na­tion­al Gov­ern­ing Bod­ies (NGB) will in­cur.”

When Guardian Me­dia con­tact­ed for­mer Chair­man of the Fi­nance Com­mit­tee Phillip White­man to con­firm whether di­rec­tors have an ap­proval lim­it or not, White­man said he could not com­ment on the mat­ter.

Jan al­so triv­i­alised the re­port’s find­ings which stat­ed he shared con­fi­den­tial SporTT doc­u­ments.

“At that same time, I would have been in com­mu­ni­ca­tion with nine out of 10 sport­ing bod­ies, and that is not some­thing new. If you speak to pre­vi­ous di­rec­tors, pre­vi­ous chair­per­sons of the SporTT com­pa­ny board, peo­ple will con­tact you at var­i­ous times,” Jan said.

He went fur­ther in stat­ing, “I was the on­ly na­tion­al sport­ing in­di­vid­ual on that board, so I knew the chair­per­sons of var­i­ous NG­Bs, var­i­ous sec­re­taries of var­i­ous sport­ing bod­ies, so they will ask me what is the sta­tus of our fi­nances, so that is noth­ing new.”

Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer of the SporTT Com­pa­ny Ja­son Williams said he had no com­ment on the mat­ter when asked about Jan’s state­ments.

The for­mer di­rec­tor al­so said he had to record the meet­ings “to pro­tect my­self”.

Jan’s com­pa­ny is­sued phone was found to have con­tained more than 3,000 au­dio record­ings, but the phone was wiped up­on re­turn. PWC stat­ed that be­fore Jan’s di­rec­tor­ship be­ing ter­mi­nat­ed, the IT Man­ag­er made a back­up of his com­pa­ny phone and it was sub­se­quent­ly re­stored to an­oth­er mo­bile de­vice.

For the third straight day, SporTT Com­pa­ny chair­man Dou­glas Ca­ma­cho did not an­swer his phone when Guardian Me­dia called.

For­mer chair­man Di­nanath Ram­nar­ine would on­ly say, “I am not aware of what Mr Jan has said and un­til I am ful­ly aware, if and when it de­serves a re­sponse, I will.”