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THE Central Bank has asked the High Court to postpone the continuation of its long-running lawsuit against former directors of CL Financial and its former chairman Lawrence Duprey after the government laid the long-awaited Clico commission of enquiry (CoE) report in Parliament.

In an e-mail sent to Justice Robin Mohammed ahead of a January 18 scheduled hearing, attorneys for the Central Bank said the report, known as the Colman Report, was laid in Parliament on January 16, 2026, and required careful review to determine whether it has a bearing on the case.

The matter, filed by the Central Bank in 2011, concerns allegations arising from the collapse of Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Ltd and other entities within the CL Financial group.