The letter from UDeCOTT's Attorney Chrystlyn Moore alleges that Rampaul purposefully tried to conceal Hart's family connection to Sunway Construction Caribbean Ltd. The company was awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to build the Legal Affairs Tower.
The Uff commission of enquiry into UDeCOTT and the construction sector uncovered a connection between Hart and the company, although Hart insisted that there was none.
The pre-action protocol letter states:
"You advised the then executive chairman and by extension UDeCOTT to ensure that in the documents sent in to the commission that there was nothing coming to UDeCOTT from the telefax number under query.
"You advised the then executive chairman and by extension UDeCOTT to ensure that in the documents sent in to the commission that there was nothing coming to UDeCOTT from the telefax number under query.
"Implicit in this advice is that any documentation which contained the said telefax number should either be suppressed altogether or sanitised and/or tailored before disclosure to the commission," stated the letter.
"This could hardly be an honest and faithful discharge of your duty to the company and when discovered, had the potential to expose the company to further public odium and ridicule since it could well be construed as an admission that there were in existence documents on which the telefax number appeared, and accordingly afforded some proof that there was a relationship that was less than arms length between the then executive chairman and Sunway.
"This could hardly be an honest and faithful discharge of your duty to the company and when discovered, had the potential to expose the company to further public odium and ridicule since it could well be construed as an admission that there were in existence documents on which the telefax number appeared, and accordingly afforded some proof that there was a relationship that was less than arms length between the then executive chairman and Sunway.
"An inference could well be drawn that the transactions from which Sunway benefitted were arranged incestuously in derogation of the principles of transparency and good corporate governance which UDeCOTT was required to observe," the letter stated.
According to the Express, the letter claimed that in her capacity as UDeCOTT's legal adviser, Rampaul conspired with Hart
The letter accuses Rampaul of the following breaches:
"1. Your advice to the then executive chairman encouraged and formed the basis of a conspiracy between you and the then executive chairman to knowingly mislead the Tribunal;
2. Your advice to the then executive chairman encouraged and formed the basis of a conspiracy between you and the then executive chairman to withhold facts in an attempt to establish the bona fides of the then executive chairman on the issue of his relationship with Sunway;
3. Your advice to the then executive chairman encouraged and formed the basis of a conspiracy between you and the then executive chairman to put forward evidence which you knew to be false;
4. Your purported advice to Sunway through Calder Hart as to the manner in which it should answer the questions posed by the commission was in patent and violent conflict with the duty owed to UDeCOTT."
According to the Express, the letter claimed that in her capacity as UDeCOTT's legal adviser, Rampaul conspired with Hart
The letter accuses Rampaul of the following breaches:
"1. Your advice to the then executive chairman encouraged and formed the basis of a conspiracy between you and the then executive chairman to knowingly mislead the Tribunal;
2. Your advice to the then executive chairman encouraged and formed the basis of a conspiracy between you and the then executive chairman to withhold facts in an attempt to establish the bona fides of the then executive chairman on the issue of his relationship with Sunway;
3. Your advice to the then executive chairman encouraged and formed the basis of a conspiracy between you and the then executive chairman to put forward evidence which you knew to be false;
4. Your purported advice to Sunway through Calder Hart as to the manner in which it should answer the questions posed by the commission was in patent and violent conflict with the duty owed to UDeCOTT."
The letter implicates Rampaul in several other areas relating to the work of UDeCOTT, including the Brian Lara Cricket Stadium at Taruba.
It give her 21 days to respond.
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