Senior investigators from the Fraud Squad and Organised
Crime Unit have stepped up their investigation into the Cuban Light Bulb
scandal.
The RJR News Centre understands that in recent weeks investigators have collected a number of statements from persons involved in the project.
Sources say investigators have travelled to several parishes around the island collecting statements from persons and officials of various agencies involved in the project.
However, the sources say the cops are not yet ready to interview former Junior Minister Kern Spencer, who is at the centre of the scandal.
Mr. Spencer asked for leave from Parliament following damning allegations on his role in the scandal.
He has strongly denied any wrong doing.
The Contractor General recently recommended that Mr. Spencer be investigated in the bulb distribution programme.
Mr. Spencer has been under a cloud since the Auditor General and Contractor General were called in last October to investigate the expenditure of $114 million and the commitment to pay another $162 million.
Under the programme four million florescent bulbs were to be distributed in an effort to encourage energy saving habits among Jamaicans.
But in a statement to Parliament last year, Energy Minister Clive Mullings raised questions of impropriety in the programme.
The RJR News Centre understands that in recent weeks investigators have collected a number of statements from persons involved in the project.
Sources say investigators have travelled to several parishes around the island collecting statements from persons and officials of various agencies involved in the project.
However, the sources say the cops are not yet ready to interview former Junior Minister Kern Spencer, who is at the centre of the scandal.
Mr. Spencer asked for leave from Parliament following damning allegations on his role in the scandal.
He has strongly denied any wrong doing.
The Contractor General recently recommended that Mr. Spencer be investigated in the bulb distribution programme.
Mr. Spencer has been under a cloud since the Auditor General and Contractor General were called in last October to investigate the expenditure of $114 million and the commitment to pay another $162 million.
Under the programme four million florescent bulbs were to be distributed in an effort to encourage energy saving habits among Jamaicans.
But in a statement to Parliament last year, Energy Minister Clive Mullings raised questions of impropriety in the programme.
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