Akash Sama­roo

A High Court rep­re­sen­ta­tive has con­firmed that the files re­lat­ing to the con­tentious re­newals of Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP) con­tracts were sent to the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) last Fri­day. Ac­cord­ing to the of­fi­cial, the DPP’s sec­re­tari­at has con­firmed re­ceipt and the doc­u­ments were trans­mit­ted elec­tron­i­cal­ly.

On Au­gust 7, DPP Roger Gas­pard was asked to in­ves­ti­gate the al­leged con­duct of for­mer Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Faris Al-Rawi in the pro­cure­ment of three-year con­tract re­newals for over 300 con­trac­tors in the pro­gramme. The files were sent one day lat­er.