OPPOSITION Leader Portia Simpson Miller says she has met with the councillors from the three Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) divisions named in fraud allegations by the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) and advised them to co-operate with the OCG.

“In the meeting the councillors vigorously expressed their innocence and all have expressed that they will fully co-operate with the authorities in all investigations that may result from these allegations so that their names are cleared,” Simpson Miller said in a news release this afternoon.

She said she instructed them to provide their "full and utter cooperation with the authorities" so that they are fully exonerated from these “damaging allegations”.

“[We] welcome the investigation by the OCG and the KSAC…” Simpson Miller said.

Yesterday the OCG said it had uncovered major fraud involving three councillors and a staff member of the KSAC and would be turning the matter over to the police.

It alleged that the contracts, the majority of which were for gully and drain cleaning, were awarded to a fake female contractor who admitted to merely acting as a 'front' for the parish councillors and a staff member of the KSAC's Roads and Works Division.

Today the OCG said the same sham contractor had also been awarded contracts from five other government agencies.

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