UNC candidate for Princes Town Barry Padarath says he cannot recall issuing $135,800 to then Prime Minister Kamkla Persad Bissessar.

He was at the time the Prime Minister’s special adviser.

The money is part of evidence collected by the police service in a case involving Mr. Padarath and a female relative.

Reports quote Mr. Padarath as saying he can’t remember what the money was for.

But Mrs. Persad Bissessar is reported as saying the monies were reimbursements to her personal VISA credit card for expenses properly incurred on travel out of the country.