Ramotar distances himself, PPP from jailed cash jet pilot

Former president Donald Ramotar yesterday said that neither he nor the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) was ever close to convicted cash smuggling pilot Khamraj Lall and that all meetings and dealings with him were strictly on a business level.

Ramotar and former Minister of Public Works Robeson Benn also disputed the finding by a recent audit that Lall’s proposal for a private hangar at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) bypassed its board and was expeditiously processed.

“I am in total disagreement of the implying that this man was close to the PPP.  I don’t know this man and I can say