Attorney General Basil Williams says it is only a matter of time before his chambers will seek to file civil action against five former ministers and others named in a State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU) report who accessed property in the controversial Pradoville 2 housing scheme on the East Coast of Demerara.
Williams told Stabroek News yesterday that in addition he would be recommending that the Unit, headed by Dr Clive Thomas, submit the report to the Office of the Direc-tor of Public Prosecutions for the start of a criminal investigation. The SARU report was circulated in the public on Wednesday.
The Attorney General spoke with members of the media at his office yesterday where he stated that “I can assure you that once we find sufficient evidence to constitute the tort (a wrongful act leading to civil legal liability) and I believe there is because you have ministers, former minsters who