CONTRACTOR General Greg Christie says he has identified multiple irregularities and improprieties in the tendering process for the Government’s proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project and has referred his report to the island’s law enforcement authorities for them to probe the actions of Ian Moore, Stephen Wedderburn and Conrad Kerr.

Both Moore and Kerr were partners in preferred bidders Exmar Marine. Wedderburn was LNG project co-ordinator for the PCJ and the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) determined that his relationship with Exmar "…compromised the integrity of the entire 'FSRU LNG Project'."

At the same time, Christie has recommended that the tender process be aborted and a new process, supervised and scrutinised by the OCG, be undertaken by the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) and the Ministry of Energy and Mining.

In a 609-page report, Christie said his probe unearthed “overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence… of a lack of transparency, absence of fairness, and a glaring demonstration of impropriety and irregularity” in the circumstances which surrounded the bidding process for the LNG project.

He also said he found that there was a conflict of interest, bias and preferential treatment in favour of the preferred bidder, Exmar Marine.

(Full story in tomorrow’s Daily Observer)

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