Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday recused himself from the final New Building Society (NBS) multi-million dollar fraud preliminary inquiry after describing a recent article on the matter as “inaccurate, distorted and a form of irresponsible journalism”. Yesterday, the fourth preliminary inquiry was set to begin. The others have all been discharged for lack of evidence and owing to the non appearance of the virtual complaint. The last discharge occurred on November 25.
The five defendants; Kissoon Baldeo, Kent Vincent, Ashley Legall, Imran Bacchus and Mohanram Shahebudin in this matter was present yesterday. Azeez, while not going into details about the article which was published in this newspaper on November 26,
