Tag: Operation Tempura
Operation Tempura spin-offs ran up AG’s lawyer bill
(CNS): Acting Solicitor General Reshma Sharma from the Portfolio of Legal Affairs told the Public Accounts Committee Thursday that spin-off litigation from the fall-out of Operation Tempura, a corruption probe into the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service, accounted for a significant amount of spending by the Attorney General’s Chambers on outside lawyers’ fees. Appearing before […]
Bridger says allegations were vindictive
(CNS): Martin Bridger, the senior investigation officer of Operation Tempura, claims that allegations made against him amid the fallout of the discredited police corruption probe were vindictive. Yesterday’s announcement that the case against him had been closed and that there would be no charges may not have put a lid on the controversial inquiry, as Bridger […]
Bridger finally off the hook over Tempura
(CNS): The senior investigating officer on the long-running and ill-fated police corruption probe, Operation Tempura, will not be charged. More than four years after then police commissioner David Baines announced that Martin Bridger had himself become the subject of investigation over what information he may have revealed to the media about the controversial inquiry, the […]
‘Cealt’ complaints remain public mystery
(CNS): The outcome of the spin-off enquiry of Operation Tempura, dubbed Operation Cealt, remains a public mystery but Premier Alden McLaughlin said this week that he had “never heard such a fantastical tale”, as he suggested the related enquiry had no substance. Over 60 separate individuals recalled different cases of police and official corruption to the […]
Premier accuses Bridger of extortion
(CNS): Premier Alden McLaughlin has accused the former head of the corruption probe into the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service of blackmail. Following two letters sent to McLaughlin by Martin Bridger, who continues to be engaged in various legal issues relating to the fallout of Operation Tempura, the premier said the former Scotland Yard officer […]
UK cop reveals weakness in Bridger probe
(CNS): A British police officer who was part of the controversial internal police enquiry, Operation Tempura, has revealed that an investigation of its lead officer, Martin Bridger, which held up an FOI request for years, was nothing more than a “scoping exercise”. After Bridger filed a number of complaints about how Tempura was handled and […]
Tempura report missing key evidence
(CNS): Martin Bridger, the man who headed up the controversial investigation into the RCIPS known as Operation Tempura, suspects that the author of the released report on his complaint about the fall-out of the probe did not see all of the relevant evidence. He told CNS that the review of Tempura by Benjamin Aina QC […]
Governor releases Tempura documents
(CNS): Having spent thousands of dollars fighting orders from the Information Commissioner’s Office to do so, the governor’s office has finally released the Aina Report on Operation Tempura, written on behalf of then Governor Duncan Taylor in response to a lengthy complaint made by Martin Polaine, the legal advisor to the probe into the RCIPS […]
Bridger keeps up pressure for CIG to lift Tempura lid
(CNS): Since the first complaint was made back in 2010 about the way the discredited and costly Operation Tempura investigation was conducted by the one time lead investigator, Martin Bridger, and his legal advisor on the enquiry, Martin Polaine, Bridger has not given up trying to get the full story into the public domain. He told […]
Bridger has new evidence about Tempura saga
(CNS): The former senior investigating officer of the discredited Operation Tempura has told CNS that he has “new and incriminating” evidence about that investigation. Martin Bridger also said he was never interviewed by the RCIPS regarding complaints he made about senior officials, which the governor has told him are not in the public interest to investigate. She has, however, allowed an […]
New light on Bridger probe
(CNS): The decision from the Information Commissioner’s Office on Tuesday ordering the release of reports relating to Operation Tempura shed some new light on the ongoing RCIPS investigation into Martin Bridger, the former head of the discredited and controversial internal police probe. The details of why he has been on the RCIPS radar for more than […]
