Gail Alexan­der

Im­me­di­ate dis­missals from Jit­nar­ine Hard­een and the Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

That's what em­bat­tled In­de­pen­dent Lib­er­al Par­ty (ILP) leader Jack Warn­er re­ceived yes­ter­day fol­low­ing his lat­est tapes, al­leged to be for­mer min­is­ter Dr Glenn Ra­mad­hars­ingh's for­mer dri­ver Hard­een do­ing a wide-rang­ing "ex­pose" on al­leged Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship in­trigue and cor­rup­tion, in­clud­ing in­volv­ing the Prime Min­is­ter.

Dur­ing a news con­fer­ence at the Nor­mandie, St Ann's, Warn­er played the tapes, fo­cus­ing on the Kristyan Gokool mat­ter, again claim­ing he had to warn T&T about the Prime Min­is­ter, since she was "un­fit for of­fice."

"The Prime Min­is­ter says Kristyan Gokool is her neigh­bour I'm say­ing they are more than neigh­bourly," Warn­er claimed.

How­ev­er, when con­tact­ed on Warn­er's tapes lat­er, an an­gry sound­ing Hard­een said: "That is not my voice on any tape! It is a to­tal fab­ri­ca­tion.

"There will be a re­sponse from me on this very soon, That's all I have to say for now."

Hard­een added on what ac­tion he would take against Warn­er. (See Page A5)

Per­sad-Bisses­sar, in an im­me­di­ate re­sponse to Warn­er's var­i­ous claims, al­so dis­missed the al­le­ga­tion, say­ing last night they are "more delu­sion­al claims which my lawyers will deal with.

"He (Warn­er) has to an­swer to the US At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and the FBI for his rack­e­teer­ing, mon­ey laun­der­ing and fraud­u­lent wire trans­fers, so he seeks to come out of his box with these delu­sion­al claims."

Asked yes­ter­day by re­porters if he had any in­for­ma­tion to ver­i­fy it was Hard­een on the tapes, Warn­er said if the need arose for oth­er ev­i­dence "they shall be pro­duced."

Warn­er said he had giv­en the same tapes to the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion since 2013 and the tapes al­leged­ly told of "sleaze, graft, cor­rup­tion, sex­u­al mis­con­duct and mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice."

Asked if he had made a com­plaint to the com­mis­sion about the PM and Ra­mad­hars­ingh–on which his claims fo­cussed–Warn­er said he gave the In­te­geri­ty Com­mis­sion the tapes and said "...make your own judge­ment... I don't have to make a com­plaint." He said he didn't go to the po­lice as the po­lice may have been com­pro­mised.

Warn­er said af­ter two years noth­ing had hap­pened and when he checked the com­mis­sion a year ago, the body said they had to match Hard­een's voice with the tape through over­seas sources.

He com­plained at length that while the com­mis­sion had failed to deal with the mat­ter, it want­ed to ask him ques­tions and had sought a tri­bunal to in­ves­ti­gate him.

On the al­leged "Hard­een tape," Warn­er claimed Hard­een de­tailed al­le­ga­tions in a taped ses­sion at Warn­er's of­fice in Arou­ca on Au­gust 8, 2013, where the po­lice of­fi­cer came "of his own vo­li­tion."

Warn­er re­signed from Gov­ern­ment in April 2013 un­der fire for al­leged cor­rup­tion af­ter a Con­ca­caf probe.

Play­ing 17 min­utes of an al­leged 90-minute tape yes­ter­day, Warn­er was heard in­struct­ing the per­son to state his name and ad­dress.

The per­son gives Hard­een's name. Warn­er is then heard ask­ing the per­son to tell him about the min­is­ter's "hous­es, the cor­rup­tion, apart­ments, the deals they make, with Dan­ny's son go­ing through se­cu­ri­ty, tell me every­thing, tell me every­thing..."

The per­son on the tape starts off with al­le­ga­tions about Ra­mad­hars­ingh, in which Warn­er's voice can be heard al­so in­ter­ject­ing and sum­maris­ing in­for­ma­tion.

The voice claimed on one night he was told to go to a near­by ho­tel to col­lect some­one, as "Dip Cen­tre se­cu­ri­ty wouldn't let them en­ter with their pri­vate ve­hi­cle."

The per­son claimed it was a "fair-skinned In­di­an fel­la." They claimed the DC se­cu­ri­ty "saw some­one in the back­seat and knew I left with­out any­one." The voice claimed the se­cu­ri­ty sought the per­son's name and it was giv­en.

The per­son claimed the pas­sen­ger "said he was the as­sis­tant to the PM's hus­band, Greg, and he came to pick up some clothes."

The per­son on the tape claimed au­tho­ri­sa­tion to en­ter was giv­en and around 2.30 am some­one al­leged­ly came out and said "it was time for us to go home, Kristyan can fix up now..."

Warn­er al­leged to re­porters that the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre sen­try di­aries were changed to hide this mat­ter.

Warn­er al­so said he had heard "they" had con­tact­ed Hard­een to swear to an af­fi­davit to say what was on the tapes was false.

He claimed Hard­een sub­se­quent­ly called him three times and he taped all three calls on June 1, June 9 and June 16, 2015.

He played those tapes of the voice, pur­port­ed­ly of Hard­een, in which the caller asked if Warn­er had (on the plat­form) asked if "Kristyan" ever spent a night by the PM res­i­dence" and say­ing Warn­er didn't want to meet him.

"You know they watch­ing me... they watch­ing me, from the time I en­ter (the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence) they go lick me up, you know that," the voice said.

I have more tapes–Jack

Af­ter this, he claimed a good friend of the PM sought a meet­ing with him at the Works Min­istry and al­leged­ly ac­cused Warn­er of bias to­wards Jusam­co and Coos­als in get­ting con­tracts.

Warn­er al­leged that in 2011 the PM shut down the Min­istry of Works' PURE unit for an au­dit be­cause of com­plaints from that friend. He claimed con­tracts had to be ap­proved by her, "which made things testy" be­tween them and in June 2012 he was trans­ferred to Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty.

Warn­er claimed there were more tapes and while he would not play them each week, he would de­cide when pru­dent­ly and then "more Spe­cial Branch of­fi­cers will have to re­sign."

The per­son taped al­so al­leged a for­mer min­is­ter had six hous­es and he was re­spon­si­ble for mak­ing pay­ments, that monies al­leged­ly came from a well known gov­ern­ment con­trac­tor, in­clud­ing $3 mil­lion in four months, and that two named min­istry man­agers were aware of the sit­u­a­tion.

The per­son al­leged the gov­ern­ment con­trac­tor "ben­e­fit­ted from URP pro­grammes, had 52 com­pa­nies and got 70 per cent of URP and the for­mer min­is­ter's broth­er be­came ad­vis­er to an­oth­er min­is­ter, whose ap­point­ment the for­mer min­is­ter knew about be­fore the PM an­nounced it.

The per­son al­so claimed a min­is­ter's rel­a­tive man­aged a gov­ern­ment-run so­cial pro­gramme in San­gre Grande.

The per­son al­leged a for­mer min­is­ter got a "$2 mil­lion kick­back" from the Preysal In­ter­change but this was put in UNC's ac­counts as the min­is­ter "stole" mon­ey from UNC's 2010 cam­paign.

The taped voice claimed UNC gen­er­al sec­re­tary Dave Tan­coo was told of the sit­u­a­tion and he told the PM.