NICIL Head Winston Brassington yesterday said the acquisition by his brother of 30% of the shares in an entity whose privatisation he had presided over seven years earlier was above board and not a case of corruption as alleged by Alliance For Change Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan.
In the latest of a stream of salvoes between the two, Ramjattan accused Executive Director of National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL) Brassington of not only corruption, but fraud, citing a Hand in Hand Trust share transaction involving his brother, Jonathan Brassington.
In a statement, Ramjattan said that he had evidence of fraud and cited Brassington’s pledge in yesterday’s Stabroek News that he would resign his post if his accusers could produce evidence to