Derek Achong

Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard has been asked to look in­to pur­port­ed con­duct of for­mer rur­al de­vel­op­ment and lo­cal gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Faris Al-Rawi, in procur­ing the three-year re­new­al deals of over 300 Com­mu­ni­ty-based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme Com­pa­ny (CEPEP) con­trac­tors.

High Court Judge Mar­garet Mo­hammed re­ferred the is­sue to the DPP yes­ter­day, as she up­held an ap­pli­ca­tion from CEPEP’s le­gal team led by Anand Ram­lo­gan, SC, to stay a law­suit from one of the con­trac­tors over the ter­mi­na­tion of the con­tracts.