The Anti-Corruption Commission is investigating the removal of fill material from a National Housing Development Trust site in North Side and its alleged delivery to a parcel of land connected to an NHDT executive using agency resources.
On Thursday, Deputy Governor Franz Manderson confirmed the ACC investigation when he responded to Opposition Leader Roy McTaggart’s parliamentary question about the allegations when the House met.
He did not go into further details.
House Speaker McKeeva Bush disallowed supplementary questions from members on the matter, as it is under investigation and involves allegations.
In March, the Cayman Compass highlighted the situation after allegations were made about the soil being moved.
At the time, the Governor’s Office confirmed to the Compass that the allegations relating to the removal and use of government resources were “being treated seriously and are currently being fully investigated”.
However, it was never disclosed which entity was looking into the claims.
In his response Thursday, Manderson affirmed the ACC’s involvement, this after the Commission itself did not responded to Compass queries requesting confirmation of its investigation.
NHDT officials declined to comment on the matter back in March, saying there is an ongoing investigation.
The Compass has not named individuals connected to this matter because the investigation is ongoing.
Meanwhile, Manderson also confirmed that the investigation looking into the leak of the Auditor General’s draft report on the Dubai Expo and Cayman foreign offices to CNS has ended.
The source of the leak was not found.
The Auditor General’s report found financial and legislative irregularities in planned funding for Cayman’s overseas offices and the Dubai World Expo.
However, Manderson announced that an internal inquiry concluded no breaches had occurred, because the money was ultimately not spent or needed.
Money earmarked by the previous Progressives-led government for the expo and overseas diplomatic offices, in the run-up to the last year’s general election, was not needed in the budget as the PACT government took a different, and scaled-back, approach, the internal investigation indicated.
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