REDACTED 2 - IC Petrojam Investigation - Recruitment and Parties October 18, 2019 final

Page 207 of 486 Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 stated weren't clear, would you still have the authority to so do? A: No, no. CHAIRMAN: Was a there a document to that effect? A: There was no documents that I got which said that I - no, nothing. I was just told. CHAIRMAN: You were told that you couldn't authorise...? A: ...that, correct. CHAIRMAN: Who would have told you that? A: Well, that was quite informal, the General Manager, Floyd Grindley . CHAIRMAN: So therefore now the Project Director would have been solely responsible now for authorising payment? A: Technically speaking. … [IC OFFCER] : …to the best your knowledge who were a part of the interview panel who would have eventually selected Mr. Cole to be the Project Director? A: I don't know in relation to Project Director. No Project Director was advertised. So I don't know how that process went. … CHAIRMAN: He was just interviewed. A: The Process Engineer that was - well, he was interviewed at the same time for the Process Engineer. It would have Yolande