He said that after suffering weeks of having his reputation unfairly maligned, it was time for everyone to move on from the fall-out of the failed deal to locate a new police station in an empty building on Green Street roundabout.
A week after the author of an independent report into the collapse of the Lime Grove deal resigned when a key witness denied saying that Senator Ozouf had commissioned a report to smear a former civil servant, the Senator’s statement to the States yesterday was an attempt to end the speculation, rumours and in-fighting.
Senator Ozouf said that throughout the two separate investigations into the collapse of the deal, and despite hundreds of hours of work, not a shred of concrete evidence had been found that he had done anything wrong.
