THE preventive detention orders (PDOs) against businessman Dominic Hadeed, 52, his wife Genevieve,42 and relative Star Sabga, 69, alleged that they engaged in a conspiracy to murder Government officials following statements made in Parliament.On that day—June 10, 2026—while piloting a motion in Parliament seeking a three-month extension of the current state of emergency, Attorney General John Jeremie disclosed that the United States government had revoked the visas of certain members of the “1%” in Trinidad and Tobago.“We all know that our American friends have sophisticated means of intelligence gathering. They appear now to have determined that certain individuals should not, as a result of their activities, be travelling to the United States, and they have taken action to ensure that that does not happen,” he said.Jeremie said the Government was dealing with gangs that were not limited to those identified by numbers such as Sixx, Seven and Eight, nor were they confined to any particular class or geographic location.He cited the Anti-Gang Act and noted that a gang was defined as a combination of two or more people, whether formally or informally organised, who engaged in gang-related activity.The Attorney General outlined what he described as the group’s influence:“They control and own large segments of our economy. They thrived for a decade under the PNM. They have absolutely no problem accessing any amount of US dollars at any point in time to fund their businesses, their leisure travel, their lifestyles, while the rest of us struggle and line up in banks to get $200 to make foreign trips and only if we show evidence of a ticket to travel.”He said members of the group counted their foreign exchange allotments in hundreds of thousands of dollars charged to their credit cards each month on a revolving basis.“They funded the PNM. They were revered by the PNM. They have taken over the PNM. Those opposites are their ready, happy, and willing pawns,” he said.Jeremie said his curiosity was first piqued by a question from a Guardian Media Ltd journalist, noting that the newspaper was owned by the group.He said the journalist asked whether several US visas belonging to people associated with the group had been revoked. According to Jeremie, he initially ignored the question but added that he was “subsequently visited in my office by a number of persons who said that their US visas had been revoked. We all know that our American friends have sophisticated means of intelligence gathering.”The Attorney General stressed that the Government had no involvement in decisions regarding US visas.However, he said the Government did have authority over what constitutes illegal activity within Trinidad and Tobago.“To those persons among us who consider that their wealth allows them guarantees from prosecution, and from the attention of law enforcement bodies, we say those days are behind us. If you behave as gang members do, you shall be treated in exactly the same way that blue-collar gang members are,” he said.He added: “If your designation happens to be within the 1%, it happens to be Sixx, Seven or Eight, Teteron awaits.”‘Cells atTeteron await’Jeremie had also issued a warning to people who target him or Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.“And I add only that if you target me, as I expect you will, or my Prime Minister, as you have, hiding behind the newspapers you control, if, as our intelligence suggests, you have in contemplation more and direct action, the indignity of the cells at Teteron await,” he said.The Attorney General said he would, for the moment, refrain from discussing State leases and what he described as extraordinary steps taken, up to the night of the general election, to secure valuable State lands.“This matter is now before the Commissioner of Police. Mr Speaker, it is also a well-known fact that those opposite not simply turned a blind eye to white-collar gang-related activity, they turned a blind eye to blue-collar crime and the expanding grip of the blue-collar gangs in our society,” he said.Jeremie argued that the legal definition of a gang applies equally to the 1%.“An infraction of the law by the powerful and the 1% is no different from an infraction of the law by the poor little black youths in Morvant and Laventille hills. We are not here speaking to action taken by our allies in the North. We have no control over that.“What we do have control over is what our law enforcement tells us about some of the activities of these persons,” he said.The Attorney General said the influence once enjoyed by the 1% had come to an end.