At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan says he's hap­py that Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Fitzger­ald Hinds has stopped run­ning from the me­dia and has bro­ken his si­lence "on his mag­nif­i­cent four-storey palace in Mar­aval."How­ev­er, Ram­lo­gan said Hinds has still re­fused to an­swers the ques­tions posed to him in the Sen­ate last Mon­day.The AG said in the Mon­day sit­ting he was re­li­ably in­formed Hinds' house was worth around $15 mil­lion.

But Hinds, in his re­sponse on Fri­day said he's au­tho­rised First Cit­i­zens, Park Street branch to make avail­able to any au­tho­rised of­fi­cials all his bank de­tails and records re­gard­ing the ob­tain­ing, pay­ment and bal­ance of his mort­gage fa­cil­i­ty.In a state­ment yes­ter­day, Ram­lo­gan re­ferred to a 2010 Trinidad Guardian ar­ti­cle in which Hinds was sued by his next-door neigh­bour.

Mar­lon McPher­son had filed a civ­il claim in the Port-of-Spain High Court ask­ing for dam­ages for tres­pass and seek­ing an in­junc­tion to or­der Hinds to re­store his land to its orig­i­nal con­di­tion.Hinds' mil­lion-dol­lar house is lo­cat­ed at 11 Bar­ry Av­enue, Hills­boro, Mar­aval. McPher­son had ac­cused Hinds of con­struct­ing a "very im­pres­sive four-storey house, to­geth­er with a swim­ming pool, up­on lands which the claimant es­ti­mates to be in the val­ue of at least $7,000,000."

McPher­son said both his land and the prop­er­ty be­long­ing to Hinds were res­i­den­tial prop­er­ties lo­cat­ed in an ex­clu­sive Port-of-Spain sub­urb where the av­er­age home sells for $4 mil­lion.But yes­ter­day, Ram­lo­gan said, "There was no de­nial of this sto­ry."Three years lat­er, Hinds is now ask­ing us to be­lieve that his neigh­bour lied on him as he has no swim­ming pool."The AG added that Hinds' state­ment about giv­ing the bank au­tho­ri­sa­tion was "sil­ly, sly, self-serv­ing and su­per­flu­ous."

He said if there was an in­ves­ti­ga­tion, the law gave the po­lice the pow­er to ac­cess such in­for­ma­tion. Ram­lo­gan said, "Un­like Sen­a­tor Hinds, my prop­er­ties have been the sub­ject of much scruti­ny and in­spec­tion and I am not afraid of any in­ves­ti­ga­tion, be it in­to my e-mails or prop­er­ties."He said Hinds con­stant­ly por­trays him­self as a hum­ble man who iden­ti­fied with the suf­fer­ing and plight of the peo­ple in Laven­tille and oth­er so­cial­ly vul­ner­a­ble ar­eas.