Click to view full size

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­pressed con­fi­dence in the ju­di­cial sys­tem fol­low­ing the ar­rest of Min­is­ter of Hous­ing David Lee and busi­ness­man Hugh Leong Poi ear­li­er to­day.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro re­ceived ju­di­cial war­rants around 12:15 pm for the ap­pre­hen­sion of Lee, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ca­roni Cen­tral, and Leong Poi, pro­pri­etor of Sport Out­let Lim­it­ed.

The war­rants were filed by the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions un­der Sec­tion 23(5) of the In­dictable Of­fences (Pre­lim­i­nary En­quiry) Act, Chap­ter 12:01.