Trinidad Express
That's the demand coming from former United National Congress (UNC) opposition chief whip Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj as Attorney General Anand Ramlogan moves, pursuant to a High Court order, to recover funds by auctioning Jamaat-al-Muslimeen properties on August 17.
Citing court judgments showing Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr owes him legal fees, Maharaj, a former attorney general, last week claimed his cut before the State puts its hands on any of the money realised from the sale of 11 properties.
The sale of Jamaat properties had been ordered by Justice Rajendra Narine on September 11, 2009 to satisfy liabilities arising from a successful State lawsuit against the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen for its destruction of State property during the 1990 attempted coup.
Maharaj, who did not stake his claim when the matter was being litigated before Justice Narine, is now, however, reminding his successor Attorney General of a legal services' bill of $92,650 from 2006, due to his law firms— first Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj and Co, and then Daltons—but left unpaid by Abu Bakr.
Through these firms, Maharaj had gained court judgments for taxed costs against the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen, which amounted to $85,993, in 2006 with a $8.84 daily rate of interest.
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