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Feb 26, 2021
Hugo Patt
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources, Hugo Patt, took his turn in the hot seat this morning when he appeared before the Commission of Inquiry in its second session. The Corozal North Area Representative was peppered with questions from the three-member panel about a pickup truck he had asked to purchase from the Government of Belize at the end of the Barrow administration. That vehicle, as it turned out, was never sold to Patt. First, it was purchased by one of his friends for sixty-five thousand dollars. Then, for reasons not yet clear, the 2020 Toyota Tacoma changed hands multiple times more. Today, those individuals were summoned to appear before the commission. Patt was the first in line.
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“The only other exception in the run up to the General Elections came by way of a request from the then Deputy Prime Minister the honourable Hugo Patt. Again the Deputy Prime Minister went directly to the Financial Secretary who came to me. I spoke to the DPM and said to him, but you know the policy. I thought that also as a special favour, I would agree and I so indicated to Joe Waight. What happened thereafter though was that the usual requirement from me that there would be a customs valuation so we can document that we were not selling for any undervalue did not happen. I don’t know whether it was because that didn’t happen or whether it was some other reason, whether it fell through but that one did not come to me for my formal approval. Now understand that I am not trying to any way act like some artful dodger, I had said and I repeat, orally I had agreed. If it had come with the customs valuation I would affix my initials behind the words I approve but it di