Gail Alexan­der

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day called on the act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice and Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions to in­ves­ti­gate At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi for al­leged­ly breach­ing the law with the sale of a car to for­mer Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion mem­ber Roger Kawals­ingh.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar wrote the act­ing CoP and DPP yes­ter­day on the mat­ter cit­ing the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic Act Chap 48:50. In her six-page let­ter, she cit­ed 24 points, bas­ing ar­gu­ments on sev­er­al seg­ments of Sec­tion 19 of the MVRT Act.

In a state­ment, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the re­cent­ly re­port­ed rev­e­la­tions sur­round­ing the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al re­gard­ing the sale of his car to Kawals­ingh were “ex­treme­ly se­ri­ous.”

She was re­fer­ring to re­port­ed in­for­ma­tion com­ing out of a Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion re­quest filed by SC Anand Ram­lo­gan.

The Op­po­si­tion Leader added, “If the al­le­ga­tions sur­round­ing this mat­ter are true it would mean the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, the le­gal ad­vi­sor to the Gov­ern­ment is guilty of mis­con­duct.

“In light of this, I have writ­ten to the act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, as well as the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, re­quest­ing that the TT Po­lice Ser­vice in­ves­ti­gate the fail­ure by Mr Faris Al-Rawi to trans­fer Mo­tor Ve­hi­cle Reg­is­tra­tion No PCY 84 to Mr Roger Kawals­ingh, and the fail­ure to no­ti­fy the Trans­port Com­mis­sion­er of the change in own­er­ship con­trary to Sec­tion 19 of the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic Act Chap 48:50.”

She added, “Our fel­low cit­i­zens who com­mit this of­fence are made to face the full brunt of the law. How­ev­er, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Al-Rawi ap­pears to be­lieve he is above the laws of our land. At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Al-Rawi has made a habit of flout­ing laws that he him­self writes for every­one else to fol­low. As the high­est le­gal ad­vi­sor to the Gov­ern­ment, he con­tin­ues to bring his of­fice in­to dis­re­pute.”

The Op­po­si­tion Leader called on the TTPS to in­ves­ti­gate the mat­ter to the fullest ex­tent.

She said Al-Rawi must re­alise his po­si­tion is now un­ten­able and he should re­sign im­me­di­ate­ly.