Joel Julien

The loan amount, in­ter­est and le­gal fees owed by for­mer T&T and Man­ches­ter Unit­ed foot­baller Dwight Yorke have all been re­paid to Chut­ney So­ca Monarch Neval Chate­lal.

Chate­lal con­firmed the re­pay­ment to the T&T Guardian in a tele­phone con­ver­sa­tion late last night.

The pay­ments were made with­in days of Yorke be­ing served le­gal doc­u­ments in which he was sued by Chate­lal for $250,000 that was lent last March.

"All I wish to say at this time is that the mat­ter was set­tled be­tween Mon­day and Tues­day and all monies were re­turned, in­clud­ing the in­ter­est and le­gal fees. That is all I wish to say, as I don't wish to drag on this mat­ter any fur­ther," Chate­lal said.

On Sat­ur­day be­fore host­ing his Seas The Mo­ment fete at Pi­geon Point Her­itage Park in To­ba­go, Yorke was served le­gal doc­u­ments seek­ing to re­cov­er the sum.

Chate­lal claimed he had been plead­ing un­suc­cess­ful­ly since May last year with Yorke to re­pay it, ac­cord­ing to doc­u­ments filed in the San Fer­nan­do High Court last week.

In the court doc­u­ments, Chate­lal said fol­low­ing the fete Yorke held in To­ba­go last March, known as Is­land Vibe, Yorke ap­proached him to bor­row some mon­ey. On March 7 last year, Chate­lal de­posit­ed the $250,000 in­to the Dwight Yorke Foun­da­tion Ac­count held at Re­pub­lic Bank.

Af­ter two months passed, when Yorke was al­leged­ly sup­posed to re­pay all the mon­ey, Chate­lal con­tact­ed him. In­ter­est of $50,000 was re­port­ed­ly paid but af­ter fur­ther de­lays to re­ceive the re­main­der of mon­ey owed, Chate­lal hired for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan SC.

A pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter was sent to Yorke on Jan­u­ary 15 where he was “in­vit­ed to am­i­ca­bly set­tle the mat­ter.” There was no re­sponse to that let­ter and the law­suit was filed at the San Fer­nan­do High Court, where it was list­ed be­fore Jus­tice Ricky Rahim.

When asked to com­ment on the is­sue dur­ing a tour of the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um in To­ba­go yes­ter­day, Yorke said as far as he was con­cerned the mat­ter is closed. How­ev­er, he said he nev­er signed any con­trac­tu­al agree­ment with Chate­lal and nev­er met him be­fore. Yorke said it was one of his friends who would have en­tered in­to an arrange­ment with Chate­lal which he (Yorke) was un­aware of.