Akash Sama­roo

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has thrown her full sup­port be­hind the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s warn­ing that no seg­ment of so­ci­ety, in­clud­ing the so-called “one per cent”, is be­yond the reach of the law, al­leg­ing that some cur­rent and for­mer se­nior bank­ing of­fi­cials fa­cil­i­tat­ed for­eign cur­ren­cy trans­ac­tions for lo­cal busi­ness­es linked to in­ter­na­tion­al drug car­tels.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day and fol­low­ing ques­tions from Guardian Me­dia, the Prime Min­is­ter said the Gov­ern­ment was re­ceiv­ing for­eign as­sis­tance to track bil­lions of US dol­lars that left Trinidad and To­ba­go over the past 20 years, in­clud­ing mon­ey al­leged­ly chan­nelled through lo­cal busi­ness­es be­fore be­ing trans­ferred to for­eign ac­counts con­nect­ed to or­gan­ised crime.