ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The main opposition party in Grenada is reported to be writing to Commissioner of Police Fitzroy Bedeau with a view to commissioning a criminal investigation into allegations against Prime Minister Keith Mitchell. The National Democratic Congress (NDC) says section 406 of the criminal code of Grenada expressly states ‘any person who bribes a Minister or being a Minister receives a bribe where the object is to induce a Minister to do or to omit to do any act contrary to the official duties or show favour or partiality in the discharge of his duty shall be liable to a term of imprisonment for seven years’. The Public Relation’s Officer of the party, Nazim Burke, says the country is faced with a situation where a Timothy Lee Bass, a former security specialist with the US Air Force and Director of Security for former Grenadian Ambassador, Eric Resteiner, has made a statement in a sworn affidavit in a court in Illinois alleging that the Prime Minister received US$500, 000 in a briefcase from Resteiner. Mitchell has denied any wrong doing though he admitted receiving approximately US$15, 000 from Resteiner. Burke added if the affidavit is true this matter falls well within the structure of section 406 of the criminal code and warrants an investigation. The NDC executive member also indicated that his party intends to draw the matter to the attention of the Governor General, Director of Public Prosecution as well as the Attorney General. The political offensive against the Mitchell continues to intensify and several members of the NDC party will be traveling to Barbados to sensitize the public there on the developments in the scandal-plagued island. Reprinted from Caribbean Net News caribbeannetnews.com