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Date: 21:24 05/15 2009

PNP dismisses shady allegations against former President

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The People's National Party has rushed to dismiss reports linking it is former President and former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson to a Narcotics operation at the Norman Manley International Airport on Thursday night.

Basil Waite, speaking for the former Prime Minister dismissed as malicious reports that a charter flight on which the former Prime Minister was travelling was searched by a Narcotics and Customs contraband team seeking evidence of an international money laundering racket.

According to Mr. Waite, Mr. Patterson was returning from a business trip to Cuba where he had accompanied some clients from a major local and regional commercial entity.

The former Prime Minister reportedly arrived in the island without incident and was allowed to disembark along with his travelling party.

"He travels quite frequently even more often then when he was Prime Minister and nothing untoward happened while he was in the airport. He was quite surprised by the allegations swirling around," said Mr. Waite.

Mr. Waite is now raising the suspicion that the entire incident was the result of a prank.

"I have spoken to folks in other areas of the government and the brief that they have gotten is nothing different from what I have heard. Nothing about any hundreds of thousands of US dollars, nothing about any Cuban diplomats who were turned away; nothing of the sort is coming through,"

"So it is quite surprising and it begs the question what kind of decoy is this supposed to be, what is it supposed to cover and who would be concocting this story and for what purpose," said Mr. Waite.

RJR has received the pilot's report from the Air Century charter flight on which Mr. Patterson and his clients were travelling.

The Gulf Airstream plane registered in the Dominican Republic was subjected to a search at ten past nine on Thursday night, after it was cleared of the half a dozen passengers on board and the three member flight crew.

The former Prime Minister carried his briefcase, the male clients had their portfolios and the two females on board, their handbags.

No other luggage was on the flight for the one day trip.

Meanwhile, head of the Narcotics Police Senior Superintendent Carlton Wilson told RJR News that members of his team conducted a search of the plane, but found no evidence of illegal activity.

"I can confirm that a personal aircraft based on information that we got and after searching the aircraft we found nothing to coincide with our information. We thank the pilot who cooperated and that is all I know," said Senior Superintendent Wilson.

He said the entire incident is now under investigation.

On Thursday night members of the Narcotics Police Division backed by personnel from the Canine Division and Contraband Enforcement team conducted a search of the chartered flight on its arrival from Cuba.

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