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Phillips: PM knew about 'Dudus' request from Oct '07
Monday Exchange
BY ERICA VIRTUE Observer writer virtuee@jamaicaobserver.com
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
DR Peter Phillips, the Opposition whistleblower on the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair that has shaken the Government, yesterday said Prime Minister Bruce Golding was briefed on the pending indictment and extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke in October 2007, one month after taking office.
"As far back as October 2007, the prime minister was briefed that an extradition request was to come," Phillips told reporters and editors at the weekly Observer Monday Exchange.
"I had been briefed before I demitted office that this investigation was close to the point of conclusion, and I know for a fact that the prime minister was briefed in October '07. As it turns out, if you look at the indictment, there was a superseding indictment that came after the original one was issued," said Phillips who was national security minister at the time his People's National Party lost the September 2007 general election to the Jamaica Labour Party.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...ct--07_7899106
Monday Exchange
BY ERICA VIRTUE Observer writer virtuee@jamaicaobserver.com
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
DR Peter Phillips, the Opposition whistleblower on the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair that has shaken the Government, yesterday said Prime Minister Bruce Golding was briefed on the pending indictment and extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke in October 2007, one month after taking office.
"As far back as October 2007, the prime minister was briefed that an extradition request was to come," Phillips told reporters and editors at the weekly Observer Monday Exchange.
"I had been briefed before I demitted office that this investigation was close to the point of conclusion, and I know for a fact that the prime minister was briefed in October '07. As it turns out, if you look at the indictment, there was a superseding indictment that came after the original one was issued," said Phillips who was national security minister at the time his People's National Party lost the September 2007 general election to the Jamaica Labour Party.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...ct--07_7899106
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