Ish, Steve get another legal break in fight against extradition

Businessmen Ishwar Galbaransingh and Steve Ferguson got another legal break Monday in their attempts to block their extradition to the United States to face several fraud charges relating to the building of new terminal at the Piarco International Airport.

Attorney General Anand Ramlogan signed the extradition papers in October 2010. The two men filed an application seeking the disclosure of documents that may have contributed to Ramlogan's decision to sign the the extradition order. 

The state objected to that. However, on Monday a High Court judge ordered the State to disclose the documents.

The two businessmen, who were arrested in jailed last year, are out on $2 million bail.

Ferguson and Galbarsingh have challenged the Attorney General's decision, arguing that they were already facing criminal proceedings in Trinidad and Tobago over the same project and should not be tried in the United States on the same charges.

That matter is to be heard in July.