Fraud accused Ruel Reid (left) and Professor Fritz Pinnock.
Former Education Minister Ruel Reid and Professor Fritz Pinnock are pressing ahead with their challenge of the Financial Investigations Division Act under which they were arrested on fraud allegations, in 2019.
Senior attorney Hugh Wildman made the disclosure today after Chester Crooks — the chief parish judge for Kingston and St Andrew — declined to dismiss the fraud case against the men.
Wildman had argued before Crooks late last year that the case against ex-Senator Reid and Fritz Pinnock, who is president of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), should be dismissed as the FID Act doesn’t empower the body to make arrests.