The Cabinet continues to lament the significant costs which fall on the people of Antigua and Barbuda to pay due to the ongoing Alfa Nero matter.
At Wednesday’s meeting of the Cabinet, the Chairman and Prime Minister Gaston Browne revealed to his colleagues that the cost of the legal defense in the United States Court in the Alpha Nero matter, triggered by operatives of The United Progressive Party, now stands at One Hundred and Thirty-Six Thousand US Dollars (US$136,000.00).
He noted that a complete fabrication of claims by a Russian citizen, fed to that individual by the members of the opposition, have now cost the Antigua and Barbuda public a significant sum which may yet increase.
“This unpatriotic, costly behavior has also damaged the country’s reputation and unjustly sullied the character of the country’s leader,” a Cabinet source noted.
PM Browne has repeatedly stated that the actions in the US courts will lead nowhere as the premise upon which the Russian citizen’s case, has been built, is based on a complete falsehood.
