(Trinidad Express) – The longstanding denials by controversial executive chairman of UDecott, Calder Hart, about family links to a firm he awarded a multi-million-dollar government contract to five years ago have effectively been debunked by documents recently obtained from the Malaysian Government.
The documents show that his wife, the equally controversial Sherrine Lee Hart, is indeed related to at least one director of the firm in question, CH Development and Construction Ltd.
The disclosure came a mere day before Hart’s high-powered legal team, headed by top Senior Counsel, Frank Solomon, heads back to the courts this morning in an effort to block the much anticipated report of the UFF Commission of Enquiry into the Construction Sector and Udecott being published.
It has also led to renewed calls for an immediate criminal probe to be launched into Hart from the leadership of the Congress of the People (COP), Winston Dookeran and Prakash Ramadhar.
The documents in question are the Malaysian passports, birth and marriage certificates of Sherrine Lee Hart, her sister and one of the directors of the firm CH Development Ltd, which got the $360 million contract for the construction of the Ministry of Legal Affairs Tower in 2005. That contract was awarded by Hart in his capacity as then chairman of UDeCOTT.
The documents, which were commissioned as part of a legal matter from certain COP heavyweights, are from the official registry of Malaysia, and were obtained by TV6.
One shows that Sherrine Lee Hart, whose official name is Lee Soh Wah, was in fact born in Malaysia in 1961.
Her father’s name is listed in this document as Lee Fook Piau and her mother is called Wong Ah Moi.
A second birth certificate, also from Malaysia, shows that, in 1966, Sherrine Lee Hart got a little sister, called Lee Soeh Ching.
This birth certificate records the same parents for her as Sherrine Lee Hart-specifically- Lee Fook Piau as her father and Wong Ah Moi as her mother.
The marriage certificate, which is written both in Malaysian and translated into English, is dated March 19, 1996.
This certificate records that, on this date, Sherrine Lee Hart’s younger sister, Lee Soeh Ching, was married to one Ng Chin Poh. This certificate lists a man called Lee Hup Seng as a witness to this marriage, and states that he’s the brother of Lee Soeh Ching and therefore, Sherrine Lee Hart.
The articles of incorporation for the firm CH Development and Construction Ltd in T&T, dated October 19, 2004, lists Lee Hup Ming and Ng Chin Poh as directors of the firm, which registered its address at No 7, The Park, La Quette, Road, Glencoe.