REDACTED -IC Petrojam Investigation - Donations October 2019 final

Page 114 of 215 Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 “ The grant amount of JA$ 7,560,000.00 was received between January 22-23, 2018 in the form of a cheque made out the Scientific Research Council. The cheque was collected by one of the Council’s bearers/drivers and stored in the Council’s vault/safe until lodged to the SRC’s official Projects account on February 23, 2018 . ” 87 Evidence of the deposit of the referenced cheque was submitted by Dr. Riley in support of his aforementioned response. It was further submitted that: “The grant funds received by the SRC was utilized for the implementation of the project entitled “Capacity Building to Support Data Analyses, Reporting and Data Quality”. The graduate training component in Bioprocessing and Biotechnology was executed by the University of Warrick, UK in the amount of JA$ 1,581,940.00 (only tuition fee supported for staff). The staff identified for the graduate training component completed the programme in August 2018 and resumed duties at the SRC on September 18, 2018. The training of eight (8) technical experts in Basic and Intermediate Statistics was executed by Holeam Petroleum Limited … Only JA$ 2,500,000.00 was paid to the entity as only the Basic training was executed due to the unavailability of key participants (following delays in identifying the trainees) who had to travel for Research Fellowships and other work-related commitments overseas. The unexpended funds from the grant now stands at 87 Requisition response of Dr. Cliff Riley, Executive Director, Scientific Research Council, dated March 4, 2019.Response No3.