Dhansook
plans to spill more beans
Port Spain
Petroleumworldtt.com
01 13 08
Dansam Dhansook, the man who fingered two of the most powerful politicians
in the ruling
PNM with claims of corruption, said yesterday
he planned to report another government official
to the police.
Dhansook, whose evidence against former Energy
Minister Eric Williams was rejected by the court,
said he would be sending a file to the Anti Corruption
and Investigations Bureau (ACIB) about the official's
attempt to swindle property from him.
Dhansook spoke yesterday for the first time since
Port of Spain Magistrate Lucina Cardenas-Ragoonanan
threw out seven corruption charges against Williams.
Cardenas-Ragoonanan said no jury would convict
on the evidence. Dhansook was the State's star
witness.
But yesterday, Dhansook, who is also the star
witness in the ten corruption charges against former
Works Minister and PNM party chairman Franklin
Khan, said that the Director of Public Prosecutions
should further pursue the case against Williams.
"The DPP should take a second look at the
evidence in this matter," Dhansook told reporters
in South Trinidad, at a location which he did not
want disclosed.
He said it was Prime Minister Patrick Manning
who had advised him to report his claims of corruption
against the two ministers to his attorney. He said
he had no regrets about what he had done, although
he had lost lucrative contracts.
Dhansook, whose business - TT Geoseis Services
Company Ltd -- provides oil exploration services,
said his family now lived abroad, but he had no
plans to leave.
"I believe Trinidad and Tobago will be a
better place. People who want to get involved in
corruption will think twice," he said.
Dhansook said he would be testifying in the Khan
case and was willing to stand the consequences
of his actions.
Dhansook, a local government councillor in the
Rio Claro/Mayaro Regional Corporation, said he
remained a member of the PNM and did not intend
to resign. He said he was still friendly with many
of PNM politicians. However, he said Manning was
a dictator who had hijacked the party.
Story
by Richard
Charan from
Trinidad Express, South
Bureau
Trinidad
Express
Thursday,
January 10th 2008
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