Ramotar allowed former AG to buy personal law books with ministry funds – Williams

Former President Donald Ramotar has claimed that while in office he had entered into an arrangement with his Attorney General Anil Nandlall to allow him to buy law books for his personal use with funds from the Ministry of Legal Affairs, Attorney-General Basil Williams said yesterday.

According to Williams, Ramotar wrote a letter, a copy of which he has seen, to Auditor-General Deodat Sharma, detailing the arrangement after the ministry’s Permanent Secretary (PS) Indira Anandjit was sent on 52 days of leave after it was discovered that millions of dollars in law books and computer parts were missing.

Following this action in December last year, Williams said that the matter was put into the