KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Former member of parliament for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Leslie Campbell is calling for an urgent review of a decision of the Integrity Commission to press charges against him for allegedly breaching the Integrity Commission Act.
Campbell is facing possible prosecution for his alleged failure to provide the Commission with additional information it requested about statutory declarations he filed between 2016 and 2020.
A report tabled in the Senate on Friday said that the decision to charge Campbell followed a probe into whether he was legally obligated to file statutory declarations with the Commission from 2016 to 2020 when he served as a Member of Parliament for St Catherine North Eastern.
The probe found that he did file his statutory declarations as required but failed to provide additional information even after repeated requests.
The information the IC requested from Campbell, which it said has yet to be provided, included the balance on an account for a bank loan and the surrender value of life insurance policies.
Campbell provided the IC with information on the status and sale value of a 2011 BMW X6, the balance in a US-dollar bank account requested in 2017, and the salary he received from an unnamed entity in 2018.
Campbell, who recently resigned as a government senator, is facing allegations of breaching the Parliament (Integrity of Members) Act (PIMA) and the Integrity Commission Act (ICA).
In a media release, Campbell, also an attorney-at-law, said he is awaiting dialogue with the Commission’s director of information and complaints since the IC continues to request the surrender value of a life insurance policy with no surrender value.
Meanwhile, five doctors in Jamaica could be dragged before the court for failing to file their statutory declarations.
If found guilty, they could face fines not exceeding $200,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or both a fine and imprisonment.
Under the Corruption Prevention Act, public officials earning over $2 million annually must submit statutory declarations outlining their assets and liabilities yearly.
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