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A for­mer con­trac­tor with the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) who sued for over $4 mil­lion was in­stead or­dered to pay the com­pa­ny over $200,000 in le­gal fees.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment is­sued by CEPEP to­day, the con­trac­tor Stephen Samuel En­ter­pris­es Lim­it­ed was yes­ter­day or­dered to pay CEPEP’s le­gal costs to­tal­ing $259,516.25.

Samuel ini­tial­ly filed a claim on Ju­ly 3, and a day lat­er with­drew the claim which sought $4,777,000 in com­pen­sa­tion af­ter the con­tract was ter­mi­nat­ed in June last year.