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“I am confident that we now have strong criminal and civil teams in place,” Wetherell said Wednesday, identifying the London firm hired to advise the government on civil recovery. “I am not yet in a position to talk about any specific work that Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge are undertaking. As soon as I am in a position to talk about specific steps they are taking on (the government’s) behalf, I will do so.” In the Commission of Inquiry report in July, Sir Robin Auld recommended both criminal and civil investigations of former Premier Michael Misick and former ministers. He also recommended suspending the Constitution and government, giving full power to the governor. The governor created a Special Investigation and Prosecution Team led by Helen Garlick that “is now well established,” he said. “Separately, the Attorney General … has retained other specialist civil legal advice to assist it in considering other legal issues, including civil law remedies, which have arisen out of both the factual matters raised in the Commission of Inquiry report and other facts and matters which have since come to light,” the governor said. The London office of the international law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge was hired after a tender process involving a number of firms, the governor said. The team working for the TCI includes Laurence Harris and James Maton, two partners in the firm’s London office with considerable experience in civil matters. The team has “started their work and have already made their first visit to TCI. They will be working closely with the Attorney General and his chambers, and of course closely with Helen Garlick and the SIPT team,” Wetherell said. Garlick was in the country last week to meet with her team’s Strategic Oversight Group to discuss her progress on investigations and to meet with members of the Consultative Forum. While assembling investigative teams has taken some time because of limited government finances, Attorney General Kurt de Freitas has said there is no deadline for completing the investigations.
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His Excellency the Gov. Gordon Wetherell says the government now has everything in place to investigate allegations of corruption reported in last year’s Commission of Inquiry and to recover government assets.Related Articles
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