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Wednesday, January 09, 2008
A team of investigators from the Dutch National Public Prosecutor's Office yesterday began their investigations here into the controversial $31-million donation from Dutch oil trading company, Trafigura Beheer, to the People's National Party (PNP) last year.
The team comprises Chief Inspector Roel De Kruis, Inspector GB Borghols and an interpreter - all from the National Public Prosecutor's Office in the Netherlands.
Sources told the Observer that the team met yesterday with the representatives of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, which has been assigned the duties of the central authority overseeing these activities under the Mutual Assistance (Criminal Matters) Act, which applies to countries like Jamaica that are signatories to the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime.
The visiting investigators have a tentative meeting set for Jamaica House with Prime Minister Bruce Golding today. But with the prime minister likely to be in rural Jamaica, this could be postponed until January 12 or 13. They meet Leader of the Opposition, Portia Simpson Miller on January 15 or 16; PNP functionaries Phillip Paulwell, Donald Buchanan and Robert Pickersgill between January 14 and 15; and former senator, Colin Campbell, who was forced to resign as a result of the controversy, on January 16.
A team of investigators from the Dutch National Public Prosecutor's Office yesterday began their investigations here into the controversial $31-million donation from Dutch oil trading company, Trafigura Beheer, to the People's National Party (PNP) last year.
The team comprises Chief Inspector Roel De Kruis, Inspector GB Borghols and an interpreter - all from the National Public Prosecutor's Office in the Netherlands.
Sources told the Observer that the team met yesterday with the representatives of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, which has been assigned the duties of the central authority overseeing these activities under the Mutual Assistance (Criminal Matters) Act, which applies to countries like Jamaica that are signatories to the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime.
The visiting investigators have a tentative meeting set for Jamaica House with Prime Minister Bruce Golding today. But with the prime minister likely to be in rural Jamaica, this could be postponed until January 12 or 13. They meet Leader of the Opposition, Portia Simpson Miller on January 15 or 16; PNP functionaries Phillip Paulwell, Donald Buchanan and Robert Pickersgill between January 14 and 15; and former senator, Colin Campbell, who was forced to resign as a result of the controversy, on January 16.
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