Government prosecutors have not fulfilled a promise to furnish defence counsel with transcripts of audio tapes and supporting statements, which are believed to be crucial to the Kern Spencer trial.

"We have had no word and we have received nothing further by way of disclosure," Spencer's attorney told The Gleaner yesterday.

Spencer and his co-accused, Coleen Wright, are booked to appear in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court to answer to money laundering and corruption charges today.

The case had got to the trial stage before the discovery of audio recordings, which were recovered from the cellular phone of Rodney Chin, former-co-accused-turned Crown witness, slowed proceedings.

Yesterday, Paula Llewellyn, director of public prosecutions, said her department had no control over the slow pace at which the 27 audio recordings were being transcribed.

Working with the police

"We have to work with the timetable of the police. They are the persons who are transcribing and getting the statements together," said Llewellyn.

At 3:50 p.m. yesterday, Llewellyn was still awaiting the material from the police. She said that the police had assured her that the material being transcribed was 98 per cent complete and would have been ready in the evening.

Spencer and Wright are charged with money laundering and corruption arising out of their role in the implementation of an energy-saving light-bulb project between 2006 and 2007.