Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day an­nounced that she in­tends to file a re­port to the po­lice for a crim­i­nal probe to be launched in­to Op­po­si­tion MP Kei­th Scot­land for al­leged­ly con­spir­ing to de­fraud a State en­ti­ty.

Speak­ing dur­ing the Mid-Year Bud­get Re­view, Per­sad-Bisses­sar claimed that Scot­land, while an at­tor­ney for the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC), al­leged­ly de­lib­er­ate­ly mis­led the State com­pa­ny in­to be­liev­ing he filed a case against Fla­vorite Foods Ltd, when records re­veal he did not.

“I wish to an­nounce that I have in­struct­ed the Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, the Ho­n­ourable Bar­ry Padarath, to ask T&TEC to in­sti­tute le­gal pro­ceed­ings against Mr Scot­land and his cham­bers for fraud­u­lent mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion, pro­fes­sion­al neg­li­gence and breach of con­tract. I’ve al­so di­rect­ed that con­sid­er­a­tion be giv­en to a for­mal com­plaint to the Dis­ci­pli­nary Com­mit­tee of the Law As­so­ci­a­tion for breach of the Code of Con­duct, pur­suant to the Le­gal Pro­fes­sion Act.