FRESH allegations of corruption and financial impropriety have been brought by the Estate Management and Business Development Company Ltd (EMBD) in its multi-million-dollar “cartel claim” against a group of contractors and former minister of housing Dr Roodal Moonilal.

On Monday, the State company filed its defended statement of case in the lawsuit that is to be heard by Justice Frank Seepersad.

Essentially, the company, in its new allegations, is claiming payments were made by some of the defendant contracting companies to third parties, who it claimed were connected to Moonilal and the United National Congress (UNC).