The PPP said yesterday that New York-based businessman Ed Ahmad who was charged by the US FBI with mortgage fraud has not made any financial contributions to the PPP/C’s 2011 political campaign “nor can he be considered in any way part of the PPP structure or the PPP/C government”.
The statement came following media reports on Ahmad’s arrest on Friday in New York and his subsequent release on a bond of US$2.5 million and responded in particular to a report that appeared in yesterday’s edition of the online publication Demerara Waves.
“The People’s Progressive Party has once again noticed that the Demerara Waves website has now openly joined ranks with the pro-opposition media in