Deputy Prime Minister Faber also commented on Lev Dermen - the Armenian who is in a US jail for defrauding the federal government out of half a billion dollars in tax credits.
Dermen's associate Jacob Kingston has turned on him - and testified that Dermen was sending 25 thousand US dollars monthly for a senior government official in Belize. Kingston has sent he also sent one himself by electronic transfer.
There are very many theories about which UDP minister may have been receiving that big money - since quite a few of them are known to have associated with the man known in Belize as Levon.
Faber says, he was not one of them:
Reporter
"Would you make a statement on Lev Dermen? You put up a facebook post saying that neither did you get $25,000 or $0.25 cents. There are people in the UDP saying that you flew in the jet with him and you went to visit him in LA. What's your relationship if any with Lev Dermen?"
Hon. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education
"Absolutely not. There is as I said on my post no relationship. It is as I said on my post I've never made a recommendation, not for Lev Dermen or for anybody else to ever become an ambassador or an honorary consul. It is as I said in my post I have never received not even a shilling from Lev Dermen or his associates or any. In fact I can say categorically that I've not received a contribution of that size whether once in a while or every now and again or every month or whatever it is, I have never received contribution of that size from any one individual."
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