CORRUPTION allegations against Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal are “fabricated” and a racist strategy to campaign in the general election that “all them Indian is thief.”

So said Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar in response to fresh allegations of corruption and financial impropriety brought by the Estate Management and Business Development Company Ltd (EMBD) in a civil claim against a group of contractors and Moonilal, the former Housing Minister under Persad-Bissessar’s government from 2010 to 2015.

The new allegations are that payments were made by some of the defendant contracting companies to third parties connected to Moonilal and the United National Congress (UNC).