THE Progressive Liberal Party emphasised yesterday that no one from the party has been connected to a Netherlands’ probe examining the acquisition of nine Royal Bahamas Defence Force vessels in 2014. Dutch investigators are investigating whether the Damen Shipyard Group used foreign agents to bribe foreign officials in multiple jurisdictions. Damen’s Caribbean work involving an intermediary, NSG Management & Technical Services Ltd, is at the centre of the probe because Damen is said to have paid unusually high commissions to NSG from its contracts with The Bahamas and Trinidad & Tobago governments. Yesterday, the opposition party said “there is nothing to hide” in relation to the matter, adding officials in the Minnis administration have all the files related to the project and should provide the “full information” to the public.

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