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Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er James Philbert has said there was "con­tra­dic­to­ry ev­i­dence" re­gard­ing the pur­port­ed $5 mil­lion hit placed on the life of UNC po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar. At a press con­fer­ence yes­ter­day at Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port-of-Spain, Philbert said of­fi­cers con­duct­ed ex­ten­sive in­ves­ti­ga­tions from the time the claim was re­port­ed.

"But the facts of the re­port are con­tra­dic­to­ry to what the analy­sis has said. "A re­port was made to the po­lice and the po­lice made an analy­sis of the facts that was re­port­ed. In do­ing that analy­sis it did not sub­stan­ti­ate what­ev­er facts came in the re­port," Philbert said. A week ago, the claim of a "hit" first sur­faced, where an anony­mous caller was said to have in­for­ma­tion that Per­sad-Bisses­sar's life was in jeop­ardy.