Raphael John-Lall

Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er has done noth­ing wrong and so he re­mains an im­por­tant part of the Gov­ern­ment, says At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan. He was com­par­ing the case of Warn­er who has had al­le­ga­tions of bribery made against him by FI­FA ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber Chuck Blaz­er and the case of dis­missed Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Mary King. Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar had act­ed on ev­i­dence that a $100,000 con­tract was award­ed to Ix­anos, a com­pa­ny in which King's fam­i­ly had an in­ter­est. "Warn­er has not been proven to have com­mit­ted any sin as yet and it's an al­le­ga­tion from FI­FA," Ram­lo­gan said. "FI­FA is not run by the Gov­ern­ment and it would be pre­ma­ture for us as the T&T Gov­ern­ment to make any pub­lic pro­nounce­ments as it re­lates to Warn­er on a mat­ter we know noth­ing about."

Ram­lo­gan was speak­ing to the me­dia yes­ter­day at the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al's Of­fice's In­di­an Ar­rival Day cel­e­bra­tions at Ca­bil­do Cham­bers, Port-of-Spain. He said the case of King was com­plete­ly dif­fer­ent.

"With Mary King it was dif­fer­ent...She was part of the Gov­ern­ment and we knew what had hap­pened in that mat­ter," the AG said. "It would be un­fair to Warn­er for us to make any sort of pro­nounce­ment against him and his char­ac­ter. "This is not the first time al­le­ga­tions have been made against him...Al­le­ga­tions have been made be­fore with­in the bo­som of FI­FA and he has come out of it with his in­tegri­ty in­tact."

He added, how­ev­er, that if any ev­i­dence was pro­duced that might im­pli­cate Warn­er, it would be dealt with by the Prime Min­is­ter.