(Trinidad Express) Attorney General Anand Ramlogan says he has had to request more security after threats to his life by former PNM councillor Dansam Dhansook. Ramlogan said so during Thursday’s post-Cabinet news conference at the Prime Minister’s office in St Clair. Dhansook had filed a matter in court several years ago, alleging that he had offered a bribe to then minister of Works and Transport Franklin Khan. Khan was subsequently freed of all charges and Dhansook issued a public apology. But Ramlogan said Dhansook had nothing to do with the victory achieved by Khan, who is seeking to become chairman of the PNM in next month’s party elections.
Ramlogan said in July last year, he received “an odd letter” from Dansam Dhansook which contained demands for work from the People’s Partnership Government. He said he ignored that and a second letter from Dhansook came to him. He said demands were intensified in a third letter sent to him “and ended the letter with what I interpreted clearly to be a threat to my and my family’s personal security and also an attempt to blackmail me.” Ramlogan said he called then commissioner of police James Philbert “and I gave it to him and I ask that it be investigated.” The AG continued: “The second thing that I did, having regard to the allegation of Mr Dhansook was making—the allegations being that I drafted a letter for him to send to the Prime Minister that would have led to the charges—immediately I drafted the letter to the DPP of the country, sending him a copy of that letter and highlighting for the DPP, the fact that this letter may have implications for pending prosecutions.” Ramlogan said Khan was free of the charges today, “not because Dansam Dhansook had a change of heart or had any pangs of conscience, it was because I took it upon myself to disclose to the DPP a letter he sent me in confidence, a letter which made allegations and threats and I passed it to both the Commissioner of Police and the DPP for three things to be done.”
