By PAVEL BAILEY
Tribune Staff Reporter
pbailey@tribunemedia.net
AN attorney for Scotiabank spoke of patents Adrian Gibson made for two properties in 2021 as his trial continued yesterday.
Yolande Julian, an attorney who appeared for Scotiabank regarding bank transactions that totalled $180,093, gave evidence before Senior Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson.
Questioned by defence attorney Damian Gomez KC, Ms Julian said she was involved in a transaction Gibson made for lot four in Ardastra Garden Estates, where a $93,039 further charge was made.
A letter of instructions from Scotiabank given to Ms Julian about the transaction, dated May 18, 2021, was brought up by Mr Gomez. It had requested a title search and indicated that Mr Gibson was the owner of the property.
Ms Julian said she acted on these instructions and that she was not the one who created the document.
Ms Julian continued that she received information on a transaction for Gibson's Venice Bay property that totalled $90,000.
She indicated to the court that while she appeared on behalf of the bank, Gibson did not have his own attorney present during these transactions.
The defence opened its case last month.
Around that same time, prosecutors withdrew 18 charges against Gibson, all counts of receiving, and dropped the case against one co-accused entirely.
Gibson still faces 41 charges, including bribery and money laundering.
The case centres on allegations that contracts awarded during Gibson's tenure at the WSC benefited companies linked to him and his associates. He is on trial alongside former WSC general manager Elwood Donaldson Jr, Joan Knowles and Jerome Missick.
All have denied wrongdoing.
Gibson pleaded not guilty in 2022.
Jurors were selected in May 2023.
The trial has been under way since November 2023.
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