ROSEAU – Legal counsel for the West Indies Cricket Board, Tony Astaphan, says statements by former WICB officials calling for a forensic audit of the board’s finances, could be politically motivated.
Speaking on DBS Radio here Thursday, Astaphan said it was hard to imagine why individuals who would have had past knowledge of the WICB’s practices would still make a case for any such audit, especially when this was already being done by reputable firms.
“The reason why the West Indies Cricket Board are seriously aggravated by this outburst, is the fact that the board has both internal and external auditors and they are not the same firm,” Astaphan pointed out.
“And significant amount of monies are being paid for the various auditing being done by these firms and for these allegations to be made by [former] officials of the West Indies Cricket Board who know and must know . . . of the forensic safeguards and accounting safeguards that are in place at the West Indies Cricket Board, these things are just shocking. (CMC)
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