Po­lice are cur­rent­ly in the process of charg­ing for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, SC, and UNC Sen­a­tor Ger­ald Ramdeen with three of­fences over their roles in a mul­ti-mil­lion le­gal fee kick­back con­spir­a­cy.

De­tec­tives as­signed to the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion In­ves­ti­ga­tion Bu­reau (ACIB) were giv­en the go ahead from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) Roger Gas­pard, SC af­ter a meet­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors were ex­pect­ed to com­plete the in­ter­view process on Thurs­day night but their plans were de­railed af­ter both Ram­lo­gan and Ramdeen com­plained of feel­ing un­well at dif­fer­ent times and they had to be tak­en sep­a­rate­ly to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment.

Sources close to the in­ves­ti­ga­tion said that the Ram­lo­gan and Ramdeen are be­ing charged with con­spir­ing to en­gage in mon­ey laun­der­ing, cor­rup­tion and mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.

Sim­i­lar charges were laid against the State's co-op­er­at­ing wit­ness British Queen's Coun­sel Vin­cent Nel­son, on Wednes­day. Nel­son has signed a plea agree­ment with the State to tes­ti­fy against Ram­lo­gan and Ramdeen. Nel­son was re­leased on $100,000 bail and was al­lowed to leave the coun­try to med­ical treat­ment.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that lawyers for Ram­lo­gan and Ramdeen are seek­ing bail for their clients as they would have to spend the week­end in po­lice cus­tody un­til they are able to ap­pear be­fore a mag­is­trate on Mon­day.

Sta­tion bail is usu­al­ly grant­ed to some per­sons charged with non-vi­o­lent crimes dur­ing week­ends. It is al­lowed at the dis­cre­tion of the po­lice and is ap­proved by a Jus­tice of the Peace.