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Petrojam’s Chief Financial Officer, Delroy Brown, claimed Thursday that he was sent on a five-day suspension in 2018 after then general manager Floyd Grindley and then human resource manager Yolande Ramharrack concocted false allegations against him.

The finance executive testified on Monday that he was suspended after resisting a request from Grindley to do something that “was not correct”.

Grindley, who resigned from Petrojam in July 2018, and former chairman Dr Perceval Singh are being tried in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on fraud charges in relation to overseas travel allowances amounting to US$73,620.

Brown acknowledged that the reasons given were that he was not attending meetings with Grindley and that there was a need for improvement of deliverables in the accounting department.

“The improvement was little to none in that area. Is that correct?” Knight asked, to which Brown said he had vague recollections.

Additionally, Brown told Knight that the matter did not stand out in his mind as he had taken it to be false.

“So the general manager and the human resource manager were making false allegations against you?” Knight asked.

“Yes,” Brown answered.

Asked further if the managers had not documented improvements that were needed, Brown said he could not recall those specifics but remembered being spoken to about the matters in question.

Further during cross-examination, Brown pointed out that a donation to the Diabetes Association of Jamaica was a...

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