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When Will the Director of Public Prosecutions Charles Leacock ACT in the CLICO Leroy Parris Matter?

The Deloitte CLICO Forensic Report exposed to the world that a cheque for 3.333 million dollars was paid to Thompson & Associates by CLICO for legal services rendered. The invoice to support the payment was found to be a ‘false invoice’. Maurice King (lawyer)  is listed on the fake invoice as providing a watching brief…

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CLICO Cheque_Leroy Parris
CLICO’s Leroy Parris approved a payment to Thompson & Associates on a false invoice

The Deloitte CLICO Forensic Report exposed to the world that a cheque for 3.333 million dollars was paid to Thompson & Associates by CLICO for legal services rendered. The invoice to support the payment was found to be a ‘false invoice’. Maurice King (lawyer)  is listed on the fake invoice as providing a watching brief in matters related to Abarco versus Grant Hotels Limited for $250,000. Maurice King is on record denying he provided the service itemized on the (fake) invoice.

Further, in the Forensic Report which was recently unsealed by Justice William Chandler, the former group financial controller, and at the time of the audit, President and CEO of Clico Holdings Barbados Limited Terrence Thornhill  confirmed to the Deloitte Auditors the following –  “He believed that the creation, approval and submission for payment of a false invoice to facilitate a significant payment from CIL to Mr.Parris’ benefit (via PFS) and to conceal its true nature was an acceptable transaction” (Deloitte’s Forensic Report p.14).

Barbados Underground (BU) sincerely submits there is enough information for Director of Public Prosecutions to ACT!

65 responses to “When Will the Director of Public Prosecutions Charles Leacock ACT in the CLICO Leroy Parris Matter?”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    Here is cutting to the bone of the matter, Barbadians have never witnessed an aggressive approach by the police and DPP to prosecuting prominent persons in Barbados. Why not!

  2. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Crackdown.

    POLICE ARE TAKING a different approach to fighting crime, especially gun-related offences, by directly targeting “hotspots” and so-called gang leaders.

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/66107/cut-heads#sthash.CYY9BuFw.dpuf

  3. Dee Ingrunt Word Avatar
    Dee Ingrunt Word

    David : …Barbadians have never witnessed an aggressive approach by the police and DPP to prosecuting prominent persons in Barbados. Why not!================

    Because we is we! Small, very small really, and figuratively too incestuous to really prosecute crimes from our close friends, relatives, school buddies, fellow travelers in the brotherhood type of way and so on.

    You have cited here several times how the connections go left, right, B, D, up and down and so on.

    It is absolutely and frighteningly symptomatic of our incestuous malaise that a few people here on BU have joked or alluded to the fact that the CJ may eventually have adjudicate one or two of the pending cases because judge after judge is recusing because of some apparent conflict.

    Of course this is nothing new. The country has long time back had to bring in high priced legal talent to sit as chief commissioners on sensitive big national issues.

    I will add also that other places much bigger than us have similar predicaments.

    Yet we is we and we do it wid a ‘friend of friend’ nod and smile in Barbados.

    Of course all that can be changed with administrators who are willing to be objective and have no problem being principled whether its their god-son or god-mum that is standing before them.

  4. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Artaxerxes April 12, 2015 at 10:47 PM

    I take note of your analogy using the hypothetical domestic violent case. But of course you are talking about Barbados and not other jurisdictions more “intolerant” to the wasting of police time and resources.

    However I would like you to convince us how the J M can succeed in recovering monies from Leroy Parris and his cronies. What ‘preponderance of evidence’ can be produced that cannot be produced ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ in a criminal case to prove a civil case of deception?

    What tort actions will be used to deem Parris liable to the CLICO policyholders?
    When will this ever happen in the judicial system Barbados has been burdened with? When all parties to the lawsuit including the J M are riddled and crippled with arthritis or pushing up daisies?

    I am convinced beyond reasonable doubt that the Bajan taxpayers would be prepared to underwrite the costs of cases involving charges of criminal deception and money laundering even if the Courts find the accused not guilty and the State having to pay damages but only after queuing far behind Al Barrack in the year 2030.

    Of course the case of tax evasion is one clearly and solidly “down pat”. Why no movement on that front by the authorities? Are they waiting for the go-ahead from the J M?

  5. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    David April 13, 2015 at 7:54 AM #

    Here is cutting to the bone of the matter, Barbadians have never witnessed an aggressive approach by the police and DPP to prosecuting prominent persons in Barbados. Why not?
    …………………………………………………………………………………………………..
    Perhaps one day you should seek an invite to the Rotary Club, or other service clubs, and see who are the prominent members , many are , because of the position they hold. Scratch my back, buddy !

  6. Dr Love Avatar
    Dr Love

    This morning I awoke bright and early , took my time ,had a GOOD SHITE.

    As I looked in the John, as I flushed, it set me thinking about DPP Charles Leacock and the Government of Barbados.

    Turds all.

    Should we not all cut to the chase and look at the flushing mechanism of Barbados?

    There must be one.

    Sanitise ourselves from this Filth.

    HM the Queen??
    The UK Government?

    Mebbee the UK High Commissioner as a start.?

    But for goodness sake lets cut the claptrap.
    ACT.

    You can remove the filthy scum bag DPP Charles LEACOCK.

    I do not bother much nowadays with BU, mostly bitching and displays of eloquent ignorance achieving little or nothing.
    No Insult intended.
    Just observation.

    I have no doubt our intellectual giant PM Fumble, reads this BU blog for entertainment and for total support of the his idea , that it is possible for him to do totally as he wishes with Barbados and have absolutely no recriminations.

    He see’s BU as a group of otherwise bored, mentally challenged individuals, getting their “jollies” (semi) intellectually Masturbating in print.

    Good Morning all, going to sit in the sun and eat my porridge.

  7. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ Dr. Love

    You said and I quote “…I do not bother much nowadays with BU, mostly bitching and displays of eloquent ignorance achieving little or nothing…”

    I would put the old saying “the pen is mightier than the sword” to you in opposition to your somewhat puerile pronouncement.

    Barring AK47s and M16s of which there are many in Barbados today, sitting with sheeple being used in armed revolution we only have the pen to resort to.

    I guess you know that our choices are limited.

    One. Bitch about it
    Two. Stage an armed revolution and overthrow the government and then sit back and see the economy truly go to shambles
    Three. Vote out these FVCKERS when 2018 comes and elect the other FVCKERS and
    FOUR. Start to look for alternatives, ME AND WOMEN WITH BALLS, the Caswell Franklyn’s of Barbados, men who unlike you and me have balls and the resolve to speak in this little corner in our attempt to make a difference in the affairs of this cvntry that we claim to love.

    That is why our National Pledge is so empty because with abdicators like you, and me, we are left with the Fumbles and Mias of this world who rule not through competency and love of country but with incompetents selected by antiquated constituency processes where ole cvnts like us vote for a man based on his popularity and the amount of hampers they deliver and Xmas, and the amount of our funerals that we attend when we die, and not because they are competent.

    @ Rambos-in-Waiting

    By the way to all the wanna-be-Rambos out there, both the criminals AND the “concerned citizens” you need to know that you must regularly lubricate the weapons with gun oils and greases so that the normal residue deposited after firing, or just through plain inaction as wunna wait for the “call to arms”, the weapon does not build up to such a degree, and block the cylinder/barrel of the weapon, which will cause the weapon to blow up in wunna face

  8. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    ”pieceuhderockyeahright April 18, 2015 at 6:33 AM # @ Dr. Love

    …Barring AK47s and M16s of which there are many in Barbados today, sitting with sheeple being used in armed revolution we only have the pen to resort to…

    You know, what is ironic, just as you say, there appear to be a proliferation of heavy weapons used by criminals, yet the ‘good citizens’ who apply for licences cannot get them. As the other day when reportedly, the sporting association members had trouble getting licences.

    And yet, the criminals got all kinda weapons. You see the gun that blew that man’s head literally off the other day? Saw it on facebook.

    Someone took a photo of the scene and that included the gun.

    It looked like something out of a Bond movie, an automatic but some kinda special looking one.

    And you understand that for a pistol to blow a mans head off, the bullets must have been hollow point or such?

    Heavy weaponry that the criminals have.

    It is beyond a joke, when the ‘good’ citizen cant get a license but the worst criminals can get heavy duty stuff.

  9. David Avatar
    David

    Dr.Love’s comment explains a lot doesn’t it? We expect that because we bray from our armchair all will be well. What about traditional media? What about talk shows? What about all the organs of civil society establish to underpin a democracy? What is the timeframe? Why did the Berlin Wall fall?

  10. John Jickum Avatar
    John Jickum

    @David
    …and what about the church and its clergy…those pastors, preachers, priests and other “holy-men/ persons” … whose silence is so deafening ? Are they afraid ? What hypocrisy !

  11. David Avatar
    David

    @John Jickum

    Are they not all members of the ‘lodge’?

  12. John Jickum Avatar
    John Jickum

    @ David
    You’re so very right ! I hope, for their sake, that the very God they pretend to serve so wholeheartedly, is a member of ‘the same lodge’.

  13. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    You know that your are on a downward spiral, when the church, not only refuse to speak out,but capitulate to the evil doers on the other side.
    There is a very thin line these days between a Minister of Religion and a Minister of Government.
    I know of one Anglican Priest, God rest his soul, who would not have slammed his church door in the face of the CLICO swindler, Leroy Parris, but would have physically thrown him out, unless he had atoned for his wrong doing,and make amends to his victims.

  14. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    DPP takes umbrage to being summoned by Justice Beckles.
    In an unprecedented move, the Director of Public Prosecutions Charles Leacock, QC, was summoned to appear in court today as a witness in a joint court action brought against the Attorney General and the DPP.

    The claimant Frank Errol Gibson is claiming damages in excess of $2 million lawsuit against the State.

    And while he came, there was no hiding his displeasure at being called as a witness in the matter being heard before Madam Justice Pamela Beckles in the No. 8 Supreme Court.

    http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/06/14/i-object-2/

  15. David Avatar
    David

    Interesting!

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