While they have con­firmed that there is no on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the ac­tiv­i­ties of an al­leged Trinida­di­an-born, UK-based gang­ster, se­nior po­lice say they are pay­ing at­ten­tion to the mat­ter, giv­en the se­ri­ous­ness of the al­le­ga­tions be­ing made.

On Sun­day, a me­dia re­port claimed that a high-rank­ing Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial was one of two peo­ple linked to a com­pa­ny formed in the UK in Sep­tem­ber 2023, and that the oth­er di­rec­tor was lat­er al­leged­ly dis­cov­ered to have in­ter­na­tion­al crim­i­nal ties across the Unit­ed States, the Caribbean, and Eu­rope.

In a re­lease on Mon­day, Hous­ing Min­is­ter Adri­an Leonce con­firmed he had set up an en­gi­neer­ing and con­struc­tion busi­ness in the UK with an in­di­vid­ual, but con­tend­ed he ter­mi­nat­ed the com­pa­ny and ties with the man af­ter learn­ing he was fac­ing a crim­i­nal probe in Ju­ly 2024.