By LEANDRA ROLLE

Tribune Staff Reporter

lrolle@tribunemedia.net

FREE National Movement leader Michael Pintard said the Official Opposition will call for a select committee on FTX in the House of Assembly.

He said there are unanswered questions about the bankrupt company, highlighting a recent report about Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis.

During the fraud trial of FTX Founder Sam Bankman Fried, it was revealed that Mr Davis, in an email, asked Sam Bankman-Fried to advise his son about a digital assets project two months before FTX imploded.

No evidence of wrongdoing on Mr Davis’ part was provided.

However, Mr Pintard, during a press conference at the FNM’s headquarters, said: “The prime minister and his colleagues have refused to answer questions we raised while demonstrating outside of holding a press conference outside of the prime minister’s office.

 “And this is even more relevant now since it has surfaced that the prime minister has asked the principal who’s now being investigated to provide advice to a member of his family.”

 “The question is: Is the prime minister and his colleagues prepared to have a full discussion of the role any of his members played in terms of helping FTX get established, acquire properties, hire persons, some of whom worked previously with government, and have they benefited personally or politically from any resources from this company?”

 In February, Mr Pintard revealed his intent to call for a select committee on FTX, but he never followed through.

 “We intend during this in the month of November to officially call for the establishment of this select committee and debate this in detail,” he said yesterday.

 He said the opposition will also seek to address matters related to immigration, the public procurement process and the recent Speech from the Throne.

 “We will at the same time convene the Public Accounts Committee and call for persons and the papers in a series of public hearings which will reveal to the public that this government has very little intention on behaving in a lawful manner when it comes to rewarding some persons who are loyal to their cause,” he said.