THE lead attorney for former Cabinet minister Shane Gibson on Friday questioned the validity of a businessman’s claims that the former parliamentarian used the code name “Shingles” whenever he wanted to receive his alleged $80,000 in bribery payments. Keith Knight, QC, suggested that contrary to Jonathan Ash’s claims, the former labour and national insurance minister’s various reference to “shingles” when speaking to Mr Ash were about exactly that—shingles. Mr Knight based his suggestions on a WhatsApp conversation between Mr Ash and Gibson, in which the former sends Gibson a picture of a pile of used shingles lying on the ground, just before he sent Gibson a voice note saying: “I drop the shingles off, aye”.

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