Businessman Dominic Hadeed has categorically denied he was involved in any plot to assassinate anyone and has filed a detailed affidavit in the High Court alleging that his arrest and continued detention under a preventive detention order (PDO) were politically motivated.

He claimed the action against him was pre-determined and based on an unsubstantiated narrative linking members of Trinidad and Tobago’s Syrian-Lebanese community to the so-called “1%”.

The 30-page affidavit which was filed on July 3 in support of his constitutional challenge against the Commissioner of Police, the Minister of Homeland Security, the Attorney General and police corporal Eldon Calliste, sets out Hadeed’s account of the events leading to his June 24 arrest and subsequent detention without charge.