Legal Affairs Ministry’s librarian testifies in law report fraud trial

The librarian at the Ministry of Legal Affairs on Thursday testified that she received one Commonwealth Law Report from the company LexisNexis in June, 2015, which was after former Attorney General Anil Nandlall left office.

Lana Bess made the disclosure at the continuation of the trial of Nandlall, who is charged with fraudulently converting over $2 million in Commonwealth Law Reports that were allegedly the property of the Ministry of Legal Affairs.

The charge against the accused states that between May 8, 2015 and May 29, 2015, at Georgetown, being a bailee and Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs and having 14 Law Reports of the Commonwealth, valued at $2,313,853 and property of the Ministry of Legal Affairs, he fraudulently took or converted the reports to his own use and benefit.