Op­po­si­tion MP Stu­art Young is ques­tion­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­tain at­tor­ney Ger­ald Ramdeen as part of the State’s le­gal team in the high-pro­file mat­ter in­volv­ing busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve, ar­gu­ing that the ap­point­ment rais­es con­cerns giv­en that Ramdeen re­mains a de­fen­dant in a civ­il law­suit brought by the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al.

The is­sue emerged days af­ter At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie an­nounced that two King’s Coun­sel, Sir James Ray­mond Ead­ie and Robert Stephen Strang, had been re­tained by the State in the Hadeed mat­ter.

The AG said the State’s le­gal team al­so in­cludes Ramdeen, who cur­rent­ly serves as chair­man at the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny.