State witness, American forensic accountant Raimundo Lopez Lima Levi, was expected to fly in yesterday to continue testifying today in the preliminary enquiry into allegations of a million-dollar fraud scandal during construction of the Piarco Airport terminal.

Levi of Coral Gables, Florida, has been in the witness box for weeks.

Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Carla Browne-Antoine told Chief Magistrate Sherman McNicolls yesterday at his Port of Spain Eighth Magistrates' Court that Levi was booked to leave Miami for Port of Spain on flight BW483 at 3.45 p.m yesterday.

When the enquiry resumed Monday after a one-month break it had to be prematurely adjourned when Levi was absent because he had to board up his home because of the threat of Hurricane Ernesto.

The State re-called three witnesses yesterday-PC Krishenlal Nanan of the Anti-Corruption Investigations Bureau, Claire Williams who deals with money-laundering reporting at RBTT Bank and Andre Leung Woo-Gabriel, who is the secretary to the Cabinet- when Levi did not make it yesterday.

Maritime, Fidelity Finance and Leasing Company Ltd and Northern Construction Ltd (NCL), as well as former Maritime executive Steve Ferguson, former government ministers Brian Kuei Tung and Russell Huggins, chairman of NCL Ishwar Galbaransingh, NCL financial director Amrith Maharaj, Maritime executives John Henry Smith, Barbara Gomes and businesswoman Renee Pierre are charged with conspiring to defraud the Airports Authority of $19 million.