- categorically denied all charges. He claimed the diamonds, which he had received from a jeweller as a gift for his children, were false. According to the Prosecutor, however, the sizes, weights and colours of the stones were indications that it concerned nine real diamonds. The person who filed the report with the National Detectives claimed the jewels had a value of US $2.5 million.
- said in his final word that he had not taken diamonds from the police and that he had not given any information to K., “except for what he already knew. I never gave false information and I had no more contact with K. while I was at the Prime Minister’s Cabinet,” he said.
- suffers from severe neurological complaints that made him unfit for work. He is suspended from the Police Force, but government did not take any disciplinary measures against him.
https://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/82916-pm-s-policy-advisor-pleading-not-guilty
