At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, when ques­tioned about the sta­tus of the po­lice probe in­to the Gua­napo church, di­rect­ed all ques­tions to Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter John Sandy. How­ev­er, Sandy said he had no com­ment to make on the is­sue.An of­fi­cial at the AG's of­fice said the in­ves­ti­ga­tion was at a "very sen­si­tive and crit­i­cal stage" but was far from com­plete. The of­fi­cial added that Ram­lo­gan will ad­dress the na­tion about the Gua­napo is­sue soon.

The of­fi­cial al­so in­sist­ed that the po­lice are "very much aware" of Hart's where­abouts.Last June, Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard ad­vised the po­lice to be­gin an in­ves­ti­ga­tion of the con­struc­tion of the Light­house of the Lord Je­sus Christ Church at the Heights of Gua­napo.

Of­fi­cers of the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion In­ves­ti­ga­tions Bu­reau (ACIB) were as­signed to con­duct a full probe in­to al­leged mis­con­duct in pub­lic of­fice and mis­use of pub­lic funds in con­nec­tion with the con­tro­ver­sial project.

Apart from Pe­na, Hart and for­mer prime min­is­ter Man­ning, the po­lice were ex­pect­ed to in­ter­view of­fi­cials of Town and Coun­try Plan­ning Di­vi­sion and SCG. How­ev­er, the is­sue is shroud­ed in se­cre­cy. Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Sub­has Pan­day, when ques­tioned, said he had no idea of the sta­tus of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion. An e-mail sent to Tong Ji Sheng, di­rec­tor and pres­i­dent of Over­seas Busi­ness of SCG, gen­er­at­ed no re­sponse.

Al­leged church de­sign­er Stephen Mendes has re­port­ed­ly left De­signs Col­lab­o­ra­tive As­so­ciates Ltd (DCAL), at Eller­slie Plaza Mar­aval.

An of­fi­cial at the firm said Mendes had re­signed but was un­able to state his cur­rent place of em­ploy­ment."We re­al­ly have no idea where he went. He just left," the of­fi­cial said.Mendes shot in­to the spot­light a few months ago when doc­u­ments re­lat­ed to the church con­struc­tion prob­lem sur­faced.

Those doc­u­ments made ref­er­ence to "the PM" and showed that the Town and Coun­try Plan­ning Di­vi­sion had grant­ed fi­nal ap­proval for the church on April 16 this year.Mendes, in a sworn state­ment, con­firmed the "PM" in the doc­u­ment re­ferred to Man­ning. He fur­ther stat­ed that Pe­na made an "im­pas­sioned plea" to him af­ter he met her at Hart's of­fice where he went for a meet­ing on a sep­a­rate mat­ter. Man­ning, in a sub­se­quent in­ter­view, claimed "PM" meant Project Man­ag­er.

He agreed to give ad­vice on the de­signs for free and sub­se­quent­ly ap­pealed to Hart to in­form Town and Coun­try Plan­ning Di­vi­sion that he was not the own­er nor con­trac­tor for the church project.