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MINISTER in the Ministry of Housing Senator Anil Roberts said yesterday the Fraud Squad is being called in to investigate the selective payment of millions of dollars through State contracts by an official of the Housing Development Corporation (HDC), to several companies connected to former government ministers.

Roberts has alleged that one former minister with the previous People’s National Movement (PNM) administration was connected to the collection of millions of dollars in rental from the State, at a commercial rate for property which was approved for residential use.

Speaking in the Senate on The Appropriation (Financial Year 2026) Bill, 2025, at the Red House, Port of Spain, Roberts raised the issue of a “politically-connected landlord”, and claimed that a managing director at the HDC had picked out contracts for payment before the April 2025 general election.