Vehicles at centre of Ministry probe returned

Jennifer Westford

All of the state-owned vehicles at the centre of a police probe involving the former public service minister were returned by the end of last week, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday before disclosing that 28 other vehicles had been transferred to private hands in a single day and this was just a fraction of those that cannot be accounted for.

“We have a bigger amount. That 28 is one day. I have a pile …which will now require the unit [State Asset Recovery Unit] to look at these things carefully and decide how they are going to proceed,” he told reporters at his weekly post cabinet press briefing. “And that is why I said to all persons who had government assets to bring them in. I don’t want to come after you… We will have to send people after you if you don’t.”

Stabroek News was told yesterday that vehicles were missing across all of the government ministries and agencies. And based on the