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Prime Minister Keith Mitchell has vehemently denied the report, published on April 30 in the Miami-based online newsletter OffshoreAlert. Mitchell also has filed a libel lawsuit in Grenadian court against David Marchant, the article's author and OffshoreAlert publisher.
Opposition activist Louisa Belfon, the third member of National Democratic Congress party to be detained in a month, was picked up by police Tuesday at her home and held for more than six hours before she was released without being charged.
Belfon's lawyer, Peter David, said she refused to answer the police's questions.
"The government is systematically targeting junior members of the party as a prelude to getting at the top leadership," said David, who is also an opposition legislator.
Belfon is the fourth person detained for allegedly distributing copies of the OffshoreAlert article, which cited allegations that Mitchell accepted US$500,000 from a German-born man in exchange for a trade minister position.
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