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Andre Monteil, Clico Investment Bank ex-CEO ordered to repay bank $78m plus interest
Former CIB chairman Andre Monteil.
FORMER Clico Investment Bank (CIB) chairman Andre Monteil, his company Stone Street Capital (SSC), and the bank’s former CEO Richard Trotman have been ordered to repay a whopping $78 million, plus almost $20 million in interest, to the bank.
In a recent decision, Justice Avason Quinlan-Williams also gave CIB permission to trace assets owned by the two men and SSC from a $78 million loan agreement back in 2007.
The CIB – which is currently in compulsory liquidation and therefore under the management of the Central Bank (CB) sued Monteil. It alleged that a $78 million loan paid out in 2007 to facilitate Stone Street Capital’s acquisition of Clico’s 43.8 per cent interest in the Home Mortgage Bank (HMB), of which he was chairman until April 2008, breached the bank’s internal controls and was an act of “self-dealing.”
Judge orders jail for attorney who owes client
Thursday 25 February 2021
LESS than six months after she was spared jail time when she paid more than $100,000 in compensation to a client, suspended attorney Kathy Ann Mottley is facing a year behind bars if she fails to pay twice that amount to someone else.
On Monday, Justice Avason Quinlan-Williams ordered that Mottley “be arrested and imprisoned” at the Port of Spain prison for failing to pay $209,142.02 she owes Caunte Antoine.
It is alleged that Mottley received the benefit of an overpayment to a client.
A complaint was also made to the disciplinary committee of the Law Association, which ordered her, on October 18, 2016, to repay the excess money she received.
Judge stops another Venezuelan deportation
Justice Avason Quinlan-Williams. -
A judge has stopped the repatriation of a Venezuelan woman three days after a deportation order was issued for her.
The woman was part of a group of mainly women and children who returned to Trinidad two days after they were escorted out of TT waters by the Coast Guard in November.
On Monday, Justice Avason Quinlan-Williams ordered the State not to take steps to remove the women from the jurisdiction until she hears and determines the woman’s claims for constitutional redress.
The judge also deemed the matter to be fit and requiring the court’s urgent attention.
Judge orders release of Venezuelan mother and child
Wednesday 17 February 2021
ANOTHER High Court judge has ordered the release of two more Venezuelans from the State’s detention facility at the heliport in Chaguaramas, by 4 pm on Wednesday.
In a ruling delivered late on Tuesday, Justice Nadia Kangaloo ordered that the mother and child be put under orders of supervision.
The judge was ruling on a writ of habeas corpus filed for the two, who have been at the facility since November.
Their lawyers applied for the writ after the National Security Minister issued deportation orders for them in January, despite the State s having given an undertaking not to deport them until their constitutional claims were heard and determined.