Grenada opposition calls for criminal investigation
by Leroy Noel
Tuesday, June 8, 2004
ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The main opposition
party in Grenada is reported to be writing to Commissioner of Police Fitzroy
Bedeau with a view to commissioning a criminal investigation into allegations
against Prime Minister Keith Mitchell. The
National Democratic Congress (NDC) says section 406 of the criminal code of
Grenada expressly states ‘any person who bribes a Minister or being a Minister
receives a bribe where the object is to induce a Minister to do or to omit to
do any act contrary to the official duties or show favour or partiality in the
discharge of his duty shall be liable to a term of imprisonment for seven
years’. The Public Relation’s Officer of the
party, Nazim Burke, says the country is faced with a situation where a Timothy
Lee Bass, a former security specialist with the US Air Force and Director of
Security for former Grenadian Ambassador, Eric Resteiner, has made a statement
in a sworn affidavit in a court in Illinois alleging that the Prime Minister
received US$500, 000 in a briefcase from Resteiner. Mitchell has denied
any wrong doing though he admitted receiving approximately US$15, 000 from
Resteiner. Burke added if the affidavit is
true this matter falls well within the structure of section 406 of the
criminal code and warrants an investigation.
The NDC executive member also indicated that his party intends to draw the
matter to the attention of the Governor General, Director of Public
Prosecution as well as the Attorney General.
The political offensive against the Mitchell continues to intensify and
several members of the NDC party will be traveling to Barbados to sensitize
the public there on the developments in the scandal-plagued island.
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