Attorney-at-law Hugh Wildman, adviser to the previous Grenadian government led by Dr Keith Mitchell, was released from police custody in Grenada yesterday. He is expected back in Jamaica today. Wildman was detained on Saturday as he was about to board a flight to Jamaica. He was held on suspicion of corruption in connection with the collapse of the First International Bank in Grenada. The institution was one of the first offshore banks to become functional when the Mitchell administration ventured into the offshore banking sector in 1997. Hundreds of American and Canadian citizens lost millions of dollars when the bank folded. Police tight-lipped The Grenada Police were tight-lipped about the issue when contacted by reporters on the weekend. "Mr Wildman was detained to assist police with some investi-gations," Troy Garvey, a spokesperson for the Grenadian police, told The Gleaner. "I do not know what the investigations and the information Mr Wildman is providing will unfold, that is entirely up to the DPP (director of public prosecutions) and the investigating officers," Garvey said yesterday. In defence of his client, lawyer Dwight Horsford said the allegations that Wildman prevented the FBI from investigating a possible fraud involving the now defunct First International Bank were unfounded and designed to tarnish his reputation by some members of the bar association in Grenada. "I suspect more reprisals will come either against him or some other person of the former administration," Horsford told The Gleaner after Wildman's release. Flabbergasted sister Wildman's sister, Winsome, said she had not been told why her brother was interrogated by the police. "I had just seen on the Internet that it was on suspicion of corruption," a flabbergasted Ms Wildman told us by phone. "What is interesting is that it is over two months since they had the election and a change in government and he has been down there all this while, and they waited until the day he was leaving (through) the airport to detain him." A controversial personality, Hugh Wildman was among candidates for the post of director of public prosecutions in Jamaica earlier this year when Kent Pantry retired. In Grenada, Wildman was often in conflict with opposition parties while he served the previous administration. In 2005, lawyers in Grenada protested against a recommendation by the then government for Wildman to be named attorney general. The Judicial and Legal Services Commission eventually rejected the nomination after weeks of demonstration. Reprinted from jamaica-gleaner.com