00:00One of the more recent developments is the accusation that Dr. Rudal Munilal was acting
00:05as a shadow director of the estate management and business development company, where he
00:10and contractors conducted cartel arrangements and where entities connected to him and the
00:15United National Congress received substantial payments.
00:20This was submitted to the court in an expansion of the claims made against the defendants.
00:25Speaking at the UNC's Pavement Report on Thursday, Dr. Munilal noted previous calls
00:30by the People's National Movement for him to answer questions relating to the corruption
00:35charges.
00:36Well, Munilal answered the question, you know they changed the question, you could believe
00:43that.
00:44I filed a defence in December 2024 and I'm proud to say I have a very brilliant King's
00:50Council as well, a star boy.
00:57So the King's Council filed a defence.
01:00When we put in our defence, which is my defence, they say, hold up, we want to change the claim,
01:06we want to change the question, but how you could do that?
01:09How you could do that?
01:10You move the goalposts in the middle of the match?
01:13Dr. Munilal gave his interpretation of the developments to party supporters at the St.
01:18Julian Presbyterian School in Princesstown.
01:21They realised their case collapsed, they say, okay, we come in with new allegations.
01:26So when they came with the new allegations, I asked them, I said, but what happened to
01:31the old allegations?
01:32If you come with new allegations, what happened to the old ones?
01:36They said, forget them old allegations, we have new things to do.
01:40So brothers and sisters, their case was blown wide open by our lawyers.
01:46Dr. Munilal also responded to the allegation of him being a shadow director at the EMBDC
01:53when he was Minister of Housing and Urban Development.
01:56So I tell them, why you all didn't take a shadow court action?
01:59And if I was a director, I want my fees now?
02:04I am entitled to fees from the board if I was a shadow director?
02:08They come with this cock and bull story about shadow director, that is unknown to our law.
02:16That is unknown, we don't know anything about that.
02:19But what happened when they read our defence, they realised they had no case.
02:24So now we have to answer that, and I bet you when we answer that, they will come with the
02:28next allegation.
02:30Because they are not concerned with our case, they are concerned with the election.
02:33The Oropuche East MP also criticised the EMBDC's lawyers, saying they sent out an email hours
02:39before he took the platform, inviting people to submit written witness statements.
02:45You are asking people today, what happened in July and April in 2015?
02:51These people have no case against me, they file a case and don't have a witness statement.
02:57And he signalled that attorneys of some of the past officials of the EMBDC are contemplating
03:02taking action.
03:03Lawyers representing them have told me today, in light of this, they are looking at taking
03:08action against the EMBDC on the grounds of harassment and witness tampering.
03:15Dr Munilal continues to refer to the EMBDC case as an expensive political witch hunt.
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