Busi­ness­man Ish­war Gal­barans­ingh has died. Con­fir­ma­tion of his death came from his wife Cheryl Mon­day af­ter­noon.

"I am deeply sad­dened to an­nounce the pass­ing of my beloved hus­band, Ish Gal­barans­ingh who passed away peace­ful­ly to­day af­ter a four-year fight with can­cer. You all know him as a fight­er but the bat­tle end­ed to­day," she stat­ed in a mes­sage to friends and fam­i­ly.

Gal­barans­ingh was charged in 2005 in re­la­tion to a cor­rup­tion mat­ter per­tain­ing to the con­struc­tion of the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Bas­deo Pan­day and his wife were ac­cused of re­ceiv­ing £25,000 from Car­los John and Gal­barans­ingh in 1998 as an in­duce­ment or re­ward in re­la­tion to the Pi­ar­co Air­port project.

In March last year, Gal­barans­ingh told Guardian Me­dia that the Pi­ar­co cor­rup­tion cas­es de­stroyed his fam­i­ly's lives.

He said he ex­pect­ed Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard, SC, to dis­con­tin­ue the three re­main­ing cor­rup­tion cas­es re­lat­ed to the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Gal­barans­ingh made the pre­dic­tion in a tele­phone in­ter­view, hours af­ter Gas­pard dis­con­tin­ued the charges against him, for­mer prime min­is­ter Bas­deo Pan­day, his wife Oma, and for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Car­los John in the Pi­ar­co 3 case.