September 16, 2022

Opposition Stands Behind Lee, Dismisses Charge As “PNM Mischief”

By Newsroom

The Opposition United National Congress says it stands fully behind MP David Lee in wake of him being charged with misbehavior in public office.

Lee is accused of purchasing a $2.3 million Mercedes-Benz on behalf of a UNC party financier, in order to access the $1.4 million in tax exemptions afforded to him as a Member for Parliament.

The Point-a-Pierre MP was brought before a Justice of the Peace this afternoon and was released on $1million bail.

In a statement on Friday afternoon, the party dismissed the allegation as “part of the typical PNM playbook with complicit operatives within the police service designed to embarrass and defame.”

“It is a deliberate, calculated and well-timed distraction by agents of the PNM to save the government from unrelenting condemnation by the population. This is the start of a reign of terror that we warned about. It comes when the UNC and other opposition voices are in the ascendancy,” the UNC said.

It added: “We will never be hounded and bullied into silence. We will continue to speak out and attack this corrupt and incompetent PNM government by the hour!”

Click here to read the UNC’s full statement on the matter:

 

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