President Irfaan Ali yesterday said that the video recording of High Commissioner to India, Charrandass Persaud verbally abusing a woman was the determining factor in his recall since he had believed that the matter had already been settled by the Indian government.
“The first time I saw the video is the first time I said I saw the video. That is the first time a video surfaced of anything,” Ali yesterday told reporters on the sidelines of the launch of the Salvation Army’s Christmas Kettle. .
“In my conversation with Mr. Charrandass, he said that was not the full extent of the video. I also made that -full disclosure. I don’t have anything to hide. When the issue was brought to the … Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as you would have seen, they deemed it closed because of what the Indian authorities said – that there was no evidence of anything. We have to rely on the Indian Authority. They said there was no evidence. As soon as this video came which was a visual evidence, you saw the action we took,” he added.