KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Integrity Commission (IC) has recommended that both the Financial Investigation Division (FID) and Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) examine aspects of the financial affairs of Prime Minister Andrew Holness.

The referrals are contained in a troubling 179-page investigation report of the IC which was tabled in the Parliament on Tuesday.

Separately, the IC did not refer the prime minister for prosecution for failing to declare a number of banks accounts on which his name appeared when he filed his statutory declarations with the commission for the 2019-2022 period.

The investigation report, an addendum, the commission’s ruling and a special report were all tabled Tuesday in the House of Representatives. It marks the culmination of a two-year investigation during which the prime minister’s statutory declarations remained uncertified.

The investigation sought to ascertain whether Holness owns assets disproportionate to his lawful earnings, and if he had in fact made false statements in his statutory declarations, by way of omissions, contrary to law.

The four bank accounts in question had balances totalling just under $446,000 and were in the names of his mother, father and a former constituency worker. He said he was added to the accounts in the names of his parents and, in the case of the former constituency worker, said he remembered encouraging her to open the bank account but did not recall how his name came to be on the account.

The matters that have been referred to the FID and TAJ involves over $150 million worth of transactions, with various companies, including Barita Investments and includes a US$94,000 bond. One of his sons is affiliated with one of the companies that have been mentioned.