There’s an ongoing battle for ownership of the mega-million dollar newspaper, Newsday. The company launched by Daniel Chookolingo in 1993, is getting no media publicity because two years after its launch, the daily immediately became the fastest selling newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago outstripping the then 30-year old Trinidad Express and the mighty Guardian which was then over 75 years old. Both newspaper and their vast billion dollar media outfits have remained silent since the case was filed in the High Court in 2014.While Newsday’s up-to-date value remains shrouded, there was a valuation done a decade ago which put its worth at over $200 million dollars. Sources close to Mr Chookolingo says this is a bogus value which was given by the Steve Castagne controlled board to buy out minority shareholders to gain full control of his company.
First Published: Dec 24, 2024
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TTJF has been sent a draft report on the latest activities by the T&T authorities on how the case against Daniel Chookolingo is being manipulated. The report is labeled ‘Corrupt Practices that have engulfed the legal system, auditors, corporate T&T and the State.’
This is the condensed report which appears to be drafted by an attorney who obviously wishes to remain anonymous and is in 3 parts:
PART A
Mr Daniel Chookolingo is the author of a report made to various enforcement authorities dated 1st April 2024, and shows conclusively that fraud and criminal conspiracies were committed by a number of persons against the State and company shareholders. A copy of the said report is hereby attached and labeled Exhibit #1, (A and B).
The report speaks of a variety of high ranking professionals who ought to have protected the interest of the company’s shareholders and the State in its many forms but the report shows they were busy defrauding all and sundry. These persons include the following professional and non-professional all of who understand they were committing fraud and / or criminal activities since they were warned when the offending Board of Directors (BOD) was originally appointed in 2011, but the BOD continues to operate illegally to this date. These officials are:
i. The professional firm of auditors, PKF which was appointed since 2011. The AGM minutes show conclusively up until 2021 (for over one decade) this reputed firm of auditors has never produced annual audits for shareholder approvals according to law but turned up at almost all AGM meetings to lend support to the BOD. PKF is an international firm of auditors.
ii. Three (3) professional attorneys identified are (a) Michael Quamina SC (b) Deborah Peake SC (c) Michael Coppin who are all part of the grand scam and managed to know the various agencies will not investigate their crooked client. The classic definition of oligarchs.
Michael Quamina SC is credited to have written a legal letter admitting that audits were truly absent and agreed that certain company business was not possible but none of the AGM minutes produced as part of the 1st April report showed that he ever made this known to either the BOD or shareholders, both of whom he represented. He also has a legal duty by virtue of the Code of Ethics to offer proper and truthful advice.
Deborah Peake SC is known to have filed a false affidavit in a High Court matter HCA # 00489 of 2014, on behalf of Dawn Ford and the company, CHL. That 2014 matter is also about the fraudulent conversion of shares but most of the facts of their shenanigans were concealed from all participants. That 2014 case is presently before a Constitutional process, under Section 137, to have it declared a mis-trial and would highlight Mrs Peake conduct. The affidavit in #00489-2014 contained a number of falsities that Mrs Peake authorized Mrs Ford to make on the company’s behalf to obviously prop her up to continue illegalities so that the assets could be systematically stripped. The 1st April 2024 police report shows how Mrs Dawn Ford used these professionals to commit fraud and conspiracies. These illegal activities are in the words of the BOD and are part of the said police report. In fact, based on AGM minutes which were only made available in 2022, the BOD members ought to have disqualified themselves for re-appointments to the BOD as early as 2012, but as we now know they continue as purported BOD members to this date and have actually sold the majority of assets in the year 2022 for insignificant value without transparency and due process as required and demanded. Otherwise, the contents of the affidavit presented by Mrs Peake, were riddled with falsehoods and irrelevancies which ought to have been kicked out by any decent court since 2014. That court was presided by another bias judge, then High Court Justice Aboud, whose activities were already published by TTJF.
Michael Coppin is one of the known three attorneys who also broke his sacred duty to properly advise the company, primarily its shareholders. He wrote a number of letters giving the most outrageous advice which was primarily designed to protect the illegal BOD. In one such letter he listed ‘dividend’ payment for several years when he was aware that such payments were from an illegal slush fund and not dividends. According to Daniel Chookolingo who attended one AGM meetings, Mr Coppin even assumed and /or usurped the duties of the lawful auditor. Mr Coppin is a former government senator.
iii. The BOD of Directors who authored and approved the minutes which show on the face of them to be replete with fraud, conspiracies and many other criminal offences which are outlined in the report to the authorities dated 1st April 2024. Indeed, the AGM minutes amount to admissions of the illegalities by these auditors, attorneys and directors as stated in the minutes presented by the Dawn Ford board.
None of these various criminal admissions were ever responded to as far as we are aware and the police and other authorities have been totally silent.
Besides an acknowledgment received from the police, none were received from the DPP, Government Revenue office (BIR) and NIB whose job is to receive salary deductions from employers.
It is noted that a copy which was sent to the police at ‘fraud.squad@ttps.gov.tt’ was returned as not deliverable. However, we have seen where Mr Chookolingo did receive a reply on 9th April 2024 from Officer Deidra Charles, whose email address is ‘deidra.charles@ttps.gov.tt’ which was copied to ‘fraudregistry@ttps.gov.tt’ Therefore, it is taken that the report was delivered at least 9 months ago.
Ms Deidra Charles of the TTPS did not elaborate as to who forwarded the report to her since the original email was returned as ‘undeliverable’.
PART B
To compound matters, on 8th May 2024, the Mrs Dawn Ford, a person of interest named in the police report, filed a legal Claim # CV 2024-01624, against Mr Daniel Chookolingo, which is preposterous since it is a nullity with respect to much of the allegations and is simply an inversion of all the claims made by Mr Chookolingo in his police report against the many conspirators. Mrs Ford claims are hearsay at best and does not rely on any independent source. Mrs Ford states she was told much of what she alleges by another of her co-conspirators named in the police report, one Cindi Da Costa. Ms Da Costa is also a director at the company who admits to the illegal activities noted in the report. In reply to the bogus Claim filed by Mrs Ford, she and her complicit attorney, Mr Coppin, have refused to expand on details of the allegations but simply tells the Court that she will explain these in court, a totally unacceptable and preposterous position. The third co-conspirator who is also involved in filing the bogus Claim on May 8th 2024, is attorney Michael Coppin. He continues with his attempts to hide criminality, when he presented an abridged version of the 1st April police report minus the vital AGM minutes which supports and explains the illegalities made in the police report. Such one-sided purported evidence is not known to be accepted by the legal system and is normally struck out for ‘failure to disclose’ pertinent information. So far Justice Kanagloo has delayed her answers for a full nine months for reasons unknown and was asked to recuse herself.
What TTJF know is that after the Claim was filed; Mr Daniel Chookolingo was introduced to attorney, Mr Kenneth Munroe-Brown by one Mr Barrington Thomas, a radio talk show host and an attorney-in-training. Both these gentlemen stated they have differences with the legal system and both claimed to have been treated with total disrespect by judges and other functionaries of the legal system.
However, Mr Brown was dismissed after almost three months when he failed to prepare proper responses based on facts known to him in order to defend the matter. As part of his reasons for not including certain information in his rejected draft documents, Mr Brown stated he will not disparage members of the profession. This is the opposite to what he promised when accepting the brief. After Brown’s dismissal, it is understood that Mr Chookolingo’s approach to other attorneys for legal representation; none were willing to accept the brief in this now highly controversial matter which stinks to high heaven. We understand Mr Chookolingo is now left to inform the Court as best as he can with the facts that make this case a non-starter as he did in his subsequent Certificate of Urgency which was heard on 22nd July 2024. Despite all the inconsistencies and the urgency shown, Justice Kangaloo maintained the very lengthy time line which was set at the inception in May 2024 when she granted an injunction based on prima facie untruths.
Nevertheless, as instructed, Mr Chookolingo filed his submissions on 9th September 2024 to show in detail how the case is a nullity. These submissions show a minimum of 18 reasons why the case ought to be dismissed with haste but it is now clear that it is a never ending process for reasons not explained. Indeed, the subject property which Mrs Ford was granted an injunction for is under the legal and proper control of Daniel Chookolingo as the property forms part of the estate of Patrick Chookolingo of which he is the sole executor and makes the Ford Claim unsustainable.
Regarding the original lengthy date that was set for hearing on December 2, 2024, it has since been adjourned twice. The new date set for the hearing is now 12th February 2025, which means it will be heard a full 9 months after the bogus injunction was granted which is clearly based on misinformation and/or fraud. TTJF understands that this ongoing delay caused Mr Chookolingo to file a request on 9th December for Justice Kangaloo to recuse herself for apparent bias reiterating that the obvious discrepancy where not even a valid pre-action protocol letter was shown. A valid pre-action protocol is required by law before an action is filed. The pre-action protocol letter shows different names for the litigants (Claimants) and makes the letter invalid and void. Therefore, the entire Claim is an anomaly and a distraction and another fraud. Was this an oversight by Madam Justice Kangaloo to grant an injunction? The answer is as obvious as day versus night.
Justice Kangaloo by email dated 16th December 2024 has refused to recuse herself. Justice Kangaloo has refused to correct any of these reported anomalies and has treated the Certificate of Urgency filed on 18th July 2024, with utter contempt and has told Mr Chookolingo he can appeal her decisions.
PART C
It is concerning when the legal system is populated by white collar criminals using the system to turn Trinidad and Tobago into a rogue state where criminality rules.
In fact, in a previous matter also involving the theft of shares which also involved CHL (HCA # 00489-2014) Dawn Ford went on affidavit as stating a number of untruths which were approved by Deborah Peake SC, a co-conspirator in the police report. One of the then litigants was Suzanne Mills who was represented by Mrs Peake’s clients. Ms Mills had a change of conscience. She decided not to be represented by Deborah Peake any further since she now understood all the facts. She made this known to the said Deborah Peake / Dawn Ford team and some of the exchanges with Ms Mills and the Mrs Peake legal team were shared with Mr Chookolingo and Ms Mills became fearful for her life. She then contacted Mr Daniel
Chookolingo asking him to inform the police and the judge of her situation. She died some months after her disclosures. This is the backdrop to the current adjournments and extensions in the bogus case filed by Dawn Ford, CV 2024-01624, which is concerning since many of the same persons Ms Mills felt threatened by are still in play.
Indeed, this case in far more dangerous since it now involves confirmed delinquent and compromised auditors of the internationally firm of PKF and involves many high ranking attorneys and judges. In the event these matters are pronounced on, they become discussions that would be in the public domain and a disgrace and disbarment for all these professionals. The life-threatening fear that consumed Ms Mills has mushroomed into an even more serious life- threatening one for Mr Chookolingo today. The most glaring proof is that the AGM minutes which shows rampant corruption by several professionals and the state itself.
Based on the ever increasing extensions to delay a hearing, it is the obvious opinion of TTJF that the judge is trying to protect the many professional attorneys and auditors who stand to have their various licenses to operate revoked for a number of illegalities including fraud and conspiracies. It would also affect the judiciary itself since it involves reported bias by Justice Aboud and the CJ.
It is no mystery that these are very serious offences shown to be committed by the auditors, PKF, and attorneys affect the very integrity of the country’s financial system based on audits of many state owned companies which could be compromised by crooked auditors…apparently backed by attorneys and judges.
While this case focuses on the rampant corruption and fraud as per the police report, it is believed that this is just a small sample of what is going on nationally. It is frightening to know that these professionals identified, including attorney Quamina SC who runs a billion dollar State Company, and Mrs Peake SC who continues to secure large government briefs. People TTJF spoke to need to know If these professionals are deliberately let loose to commit more crimes for their clients? On the other hand it is quite possible that they are rewarded with lucrative jobs and appointments because they were shown they are willing to compromise their professional integrity.
It is particularly noteworthy that none of these professional and non-professional persons or corporations all have all deep PNM connections. None of them have been able to file a defamation case or use their vast connections to have the police declare the police report false. So, what is really going on with Justice Kangaloo decisions to delaying hearings?
We are of the view that bias is equivalent to corruption.
TTJF has seen much of the documents referred to in this article.
Daniel Chookolingo – 3 Judges have committee bias against him
Justice Kangaloo – Current Judge involved in open bias
Deborah Peake SC – Insatiable appetite for money
Michael Quamina SC – PNM Appointee to billion dollar assets
PM Rowley – Called upon to invoke Section 137 of Constitution
The CJ – The subject of Section 137.
Justice Aboud – The first Judge who committed bias
Marc Superville – The PKF appointee








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