Dhansook plans to spill more beans

Source: Trinidad Express

Richard Charan South Bureau

Thursday, January 10th 2008

Dansam Dhansook, the man who fingered two of the most powerful politicians in the ruling

PNM with claims of corruption, said yesterday he planned to report another government official to the police.

Dhansook, whose evidence against former Energy Minister Eric Williams was rejected by the court, said he would be sending a file to the Anti Corruption and Investigations Bureau (ACIB) about the official's attempt to swindle property from him.

Dhansook spoke yesterday for the first time since Port of Spain Magistrate Lucina Cardenas-Ragoonanan threw out seven corruption charges against Williams.

Cardenas-Ragoonanan said no jury would convict on the evidence. Dhansook was the State's star witness.

But yesterday, Dhansook, who is also the star witness in the ten corruption charges against former Works Minister and PNM party chairman Franklin Khan, said that the Director of Public Prosecutions should further pursue the case against Williams.

"The DPP should take a second look at the evidence in this matter," Dhansook told reporters in South Trinidad, at a location which he did not want disclosed.

He said it was Prime Minister Patrick Manning who had advised him to report his claims of corruption against the two ministers to his attorney. He said he had no regrets about what he had done, although he had lost lucrative contracts.

Dhansook, whose business - TT Geoseis Services Company Ltd -- provides oil exploration services, said his family now lived abroad, but he had no plans to leave.

"I believe Trinidad and Tobago will be a better place. People who want to get involved in corruption will think twice," he said.

Dhansook said he would be testifying in the Khan case and was willing to stand the consequences of his actions.

Dhansook, a local government councillor in the Rio Claro/Mayaro Regional Corporation, said he remained a member of the PNM and did not intend to resign. He said he was still friendly with many of PNM politicians. However, he said Manning was a dictator who had hijacked the party.

Sometimes I wonder what is this guy's point? It doesn't matter how much evidence he brings or how much times he testifies in court, the bottom line is that as long as PNM is in power and they have their party hacks in high positions in the Judiciary, justice will never be served and court decisions will never be fair. Opposing forces will always be persecuted and PNM friends and family will always get away no matter what crime they commit.