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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : DPP issued with summ...iry ( RJR )...</span>
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has been issued with a summons to attend Thursday's sitting of the Manatt/Dudus Commission of Enquiry. DPP Paula Llewellyn has confirmed that she received the summons from the Commission on Tuesday afternoon.It was unclear what prompted the move by the Commissioners.However, Miss Llewellyn told RJR News she will honour the request and attend the hearing. Other officials from her office are also expected to be present.In the meantime, Ambassador Evadne Coye, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, will again be in the hot seat when the Enquiry begins in a few hours.When she began giving testimony on Monday, Ambassador Coye disclosed that attorney-at-law, Harold Brady and a representative of the United States-based law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips were privy to private meetings with Jamaican officials and the US Justice Department.The meetings were in relation to the extradition request for then West Kingston strongman Christopher "Dudus" Coke.Ambassador Coye said she was told that the inclusion of Mr. Brady and the Manatt lawyer was to assist the Jamaican delegation in understanding the US justice system.Ambassador Coye told the Commission that while she understood Mr. Brady's presence she questioned the involvement of the other man who she later identified as Kevin DeGregory.RJR News' sister station JNN will again have live coverage of the hearing which will also be streamed live on our news website rjrnewsonline.com/manatt.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : DPP issued with summ...iry ( RJR )...</span>
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has been issued with a summons to attend Thursday's sitting of the Manatt/Dudus Commission of Enquiry. DPP Paula Llewellyn has confirmed that she received the summons from the Commission on Tuesday afternoon.It was unclear what prompted the move by the Commissioners.However, Miss Llewellyn told RJR News she will honour the request and attend the hearing. Other officials from her office are also expected to be present.In the meantime, Ambassador Evadne Coye, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, will again be in the hot seat when the Enquiry begins in a few hours.When she began giving testimony on Monday, Ambassador Coye disclosed that attorney-at-law, Harold Brady and a representative of the United States-based law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips were privy to private meetings with Jamaican officials and the US Justice Department.The meetings were in relation to the extradition request for then West Kingston strongman Christopher "Dudus" Coke.Ambassador Coye said she was told that the inclusion of Mr. Brady and the Manatt lawyer was to assist the Jamaican delegation in understanding the US justice system.Ambassador Coye told the Commission that while she understood Mr. Brady's presence she questioned the involvement of the other man who she later identified as Kevin DeGregory.RJR News' sister station JNN will again have live coverage of the hearing which will also be streamed live on our news website rjrnewsonline.com/manatt.