QC Nelson receives payment before turning State witness
by
Derek Achong
Jamaican-born British Queen’s Counsel Vincent Nelson received almost $11 million in outstanding legal fees from the State over a year before he agreed to serve as its main witness in a legal fee kickback corruption case against former attorney general Anand Ramlogan, SC, and former opposition senator Gerald Ramdeen.
According to documents over legal fees paid to private practitioners by the Office of the Attorney General over the past six years, which were laid in Parliament on Friday, Nelson was paid $10,230,502.96 between 2017 and 2018 and $768,718.50 between 2018 and 2019.