?Ca­roni East MP Dr Tim Gopeesingh rushed off a let­ter yes­ter­day to At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie, seek­ing an­swers to sev­er­al ques­tions, among them, whether there is a po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the for­mer chair­man of the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ude­cott), Calder Hart.

Hart re­signed on Sat­ur­day as ex­ec­u­tive chair­man of Ude­cott as well as four oth­er state boards, and flew out, with his wife and daugh­ter, to Flori­da, where they are ex­pect­ed to spend the next four days. Gopeesingh re­mind­ed Je­re­mie that he had sent him an­oth­er let­ter, dat­ed Oc­to­ber 26, 2009, re­quest­ing that the AG launch an im­me­di­ate crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion at Ude­cott and Hart. This re­quest was made in light of the fact that as At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion Bu­reau falls un­der his purview, and there­fore, the AG has the pow­ers of in­ves­ti­ga­tion and rec­om­men­da­tion for pros­e­cu­tion un­der this le­gal pro­vi­sion. Gopeesingh added:

"Suf­fice it to say, you dis­re­gard­ed the pub­lic in­ter­est and failed to re­spond to my re­quest con­tained in the�let­ter that you con­firm whether you would, in­deed, have launched this in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

"I wish to point out that I had re­ferred the same re­quests for the probe to both the act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er and the act­ing Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions. "The lat­ter had in­formed me that he had sent the re­quest to the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er, giv­en that a crim­i­nal probe was re­quired in the mat­ter.