Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Deputy Po­lit­i­cal Leader and can­di­date for Ca­roni Cen­tral, David Lee, has been cleared of fraud charges re­lat­ed to tax ex­emp­tions on his ve­hi­cle as a Par­lia­men­tar­i­an.

Act­ing Chief Mag­is­trate Chris­tine Charles dis­missed the charges of con­spir­a­cy to de­fraud and mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice af­ter up­hold­ing a no-case sub­mis­sion pre­sent­ed by Lee’s le­gal team, led by Wayne Sturge and Mario Mer­ritt of Regius Cham­bers.

Mag­is­trate Charles ruled that the pros­e­cu­tion pre­sent­ed in­suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence to sus­tain the charges or pro­ceed to tri­al.