A pair of busi­ness­men and a com­pa­ny owned by one of them have been or­dered to re­pay $7 mil­lion to a com­pa­ny for a con­struc­tion project that did not get off the ground.

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad made the or­der yes­ter­day as he up­held Ad­vance Hose and Mar­ket­ing Lim­it­ed’s law­suit against Cordell Philbert, Joash Ram­jat­tan, and Ram­jat­tan’s com­pa­ny ZA Lim­i­ty En­gi­neer­ing Con­sul­tan­cy.

The law­suit cen­tred around a con­tract for a ma­jor con­struc­tion project en­tered be­tween Ad­vance Hose and Mar­ket­ing and Philbert in Ju­ly 2023.