The decision by the Integrity Commission (IC) to terminate its investigation into Emailgate will not impede on the ongoing police investigation, according to acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams. In a telephone interview with the T&T Guardian last night Williams said: “Clearly the Integrity Commission carried out a different investigation to the TTPS. I can’t say what information they have because that is confidential and they have not said what they have.
“I have said in the past that as soon as the investigation is complete we will inform the public and that has not changed.”
He added that the investigation was ongoing and deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Joan Honore-Paul, had addressed the issue. In a letter issued on Tuesday, the commission's registrar, Martin Farrell, wrote to the Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar's attorney, Israel Khan, SC, stating that pursuant to Section 34 (6) of the Act, the commission was “satisfied that there was no or insufficient grounds for continuing the investigation” into Emailgate “and accordingly this investigation is hereby terminated.”
On May 20, 2013, Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley read in Parliament a series of purported emails claiming them to be exchanges between Persad-Bissessar, former attorney general Anand Ramlogan, former minister of local government Surujrattan Rambachan and then national security adviser to the Prime Minister Gary Griffith.
The emails alleged a criminal conspiracy to harm a journalist, plant electronic spying devices in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, offer the DPP a judgeship and accept payment from an unnamed woman in exchange for the freedom of individuals involved in the Section 34 fiasco in September 2012.