Namalco managing director cleared of all charges

Six years af­ter be­ing ar­rest­ed and charged with dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence of al­co­hol, re­sist­ing ar­rest and as­sault­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer, Naeem Ali, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Na­mal­co Con­struc­tion Ser­vices Ltd, has been cleared of all charges. Na­mal­co is a con­struc­tion com­pa­ny based in La Brea, Trinidad.

Ali’s at­tor­neys, Se­nior Coun­sel Pamela El­der and Owen Hinds Jr, suc­cess­ful­ly con­vinced Se­nior Mag­is­trate Er­i­ca Bap­tiste-Ramkissoon that their client had no case to an­swer.

The Siparia Dis­trict Mag­is­trate agreed and of­fi­cial­ly freed Ali of all al­le­ga­tions on Tues­day.

The charges stemmed from an in­ci­dent on Ju­ly 1, 2020, at Su­chit Trace, Pe­nal, when Ali was stopped dur­ing a po­lice ex­er­cise while on his way home.

Po­lice al­leged that Ali over­took a long line of ve­hi­cles, failed a breathal­yser test and, in at­tempt­ing to evade pros­e­cu­tion, as­sault­ed three of­fi­cers.

In re­sponse, Ali filed pri­vate crim­i­nal charges against Con­sta­bles Christo­pher Nanan, Satish Ram­lal and Max­ine Tim­o­thy, ac­cus­ing them of as­sault­ing him and steal­ing $200,000.

The cross-charges brought by Ali against the of­fi­cers are sched­uled to con­tin­ue on April 24.

The orig­i­nal case was pros­e­cut­ed by State At­tor­ney Han­nah Kal­jam-Ali.