The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has de­scribed le­gal pro­ceed­ings for it to dis­close the fi­nanc­ing for the ren­o­va­tion and con­struc­tion of its Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters in Port-of-Spain as a po­lit­i­cal witch hunt.

The par­ty is­sued a press re­lease yes­ter­day af­ter­noon to re­spond to a news­pa­per re­port that High Court Judge Mar­garet Mo­hammed had grant­ed a Pre­lim­i­nary Un­ex­plained Wealth Or­der call­ing on the par­ty through its trustees to di­vulge how the mul­ti-mil­lion project was fund­ed.

The or­der, grant­ed on Fri­day, was sought by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) un­der the pro­vi­sions of the Civ­il As­set Re­cov­ery and Man­age­ment and Un­ex­plained Wealth Act, which was iron­i­cal­ly in­tro­duced by the par­ty while in gov­ern­ment in 2019.