KINGSTON, Jamaica – Former Education Minister Ruel Reid and former Caribbean Maritime University President Fritz Pinnock, as well as their three co-accused, are to return to court June 12, pending the.
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.
Ruel Reid, his wife Sharen, their daughter Sharelle, Professor Fritz Pinnock and Brown’s Town Division Councillor Kim Brown Lawrence are facing corruption charges in relation to the CMU affair.
Former Education Minister Ruel Reid, Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) President Professor Fritz Pinnock and their three co-accused are to hear on February 4 whether their fraud case will continue. At that time, Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks will be ruling on a point raised by defence attorney Hugh Wildman. Wildman has maintained that officers from the Financial Investigation Division had no authority in law to arrest or bring charges against the accused.
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