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The deal, according to Bakr, included financial gain to the Jamaat for working in the marginal constituencies, funding for the Jamaat school at Mucurapo, and acquisition of state lands for the Jamaat to occupy. Copies of cheques paid to the Jamaat were handed over to the commission yesterday, the T&T Guardian learnt. While Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard has been pressing the police into action, the Integrity Commission has quietly began its own investigation, to determine if there were breaches of the Integrity in Public Life Act, 2000. At the invitation of the commission, Bakr turned up at the offices at UTC Building, Port-of-Spain, yesterday, armed with a written statement, outlining details of the alleged deal he made with Manning in 2002. After spending some 35 minutes at the commission’s offices, Bakr emerged with one of his supporters and declined comment on his visit.
