As he had threatened, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo has moved to the courts with a $50m libel suit against Su Zhi Rong (also known as Su Zhirong), the Chinese businessman at the centre of bribery allegations against Jagdeo in the VICE News exposé.
In his statement of claim (SoC) Jagdeo is seeking damages in excess of $50,000,000 for what he says were slanderous and defamatory statements Su made against him back in January and earlier this month in a VICE News interview.
He is seeking aggravated and/or exemplary damages, an injunction restraining Su from further publishing or causing to be published other and similar words defamatory to him and court costs.