Among the other questions that the Acting Police Commissioner took today was an inquiry into the latest developments in the Amy Forte fraud and forgery investigation. 3 weeks ago, she wrote the Prime Minister demanding that a land conveyance deed in her name, purportedly signed by her, be canceled because she never sold any land to Andre Vega, son of the Former Minister of Natural Resources, Gaspar Vega.
Since then, the police have been waiting for her to come in and make a formal report to them so that they can begin to investigate what she alleges as Fraud. But, that hasn't happened, and police say that the case has gone nowhere yet, because there is no complainant.
Here's what the Acting Commissioner Leal had to say today:
Deputy ComPol Noel Leal, Acting Commissioner of Police
"This will be the last time that I will be talking about this investigation and that's simply because the complainant has not come forward and there is nothing we can do, there is no where we can go. So as you rightly said if the complainant continues to not come forward then we can't proceed with the investigation. There must be a complainant. So we might not be mentioning this situation again if the complainant does not come."
Daniel Ortiz, reporter
"Is it a concern for you or is it a consideration that police have made that the reason that the intended complainant has not come forward that maybe on due influence was placed on her to desist in prosecuting this matter in true criminal authorities?"
Deputy ComPol Noel Leal, Acting Commissioner of Police
"I have no information on that. All I know is that I have tasked from day one, the investigators to document every activity they have done. We have what we called an investigation diary to document every activity they have done with the date and time and possibly if there a phone call made to the attorney, to document that verbatim. At the end of day we will have the records to show that we tried our best and we didn't get any way forward."
Darlene Padron, the Justice of the Peace who witnessed this land sale between Amy Forte and Andre Vega, has written to the Attorney General asserting that there was no forgery.
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