The Commission of Enquiry looking into the handling of the extradition request of former Jamaican strongman Christopher “Dudus” Coke was adjourned from Thursday to Monday to give the Attorney General’s Department time to produce four “highly confidential” memoranda of understanding (MOU) .
The MOU are between Jamaica and the United States Justice Department, which is said to have relied on them in obtaining evidence against Coke, who is now in the United States where he is to be tried on gun and drug charges.
Ambassador Evadne Coye, permanent secretary in the foreign ministry, testified last week that Justice Department officials said they relied on those agreements when they met with a Jamaican delegation in Washington in August 2009.
The Jamaica Observer reported that without this evidence lawyers could not continue their cross-examination of the permanent secretary as scheduled.
