Wednesday is the date set by a District Court judge in the United States for the first day of hearing of a case involving Grenada Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell that is linked to the Switzerland "Briefcase affair".

U.S lawyer, Charles Johnson has filed a motion before the judge seeking to have the case against the Grenadian leader dismissed on the grounds that it was "a bogus lawsuit". It is not clear whether Prime Minister Mitchell is mandated to make a personal appearance at this stage of the proceedings of the case that is to be heard in a Brooklyn court in New York before Chief United States Magistrate Judge, Steven M. Gold.

On Monday, GRENADA TODAY sought to get confirmation from Barbadian, Barry Collymore on whether the island's prime minister will be inside the court house on September 3.

"I am not aware of that, what...matter is that?", Collymore quizzed a reporter from this newspaper who posed the question to him. Collymore said that he is not aware if the Prime Minister had any  travel arrangements for next week to New York.

Boston businessman Charles Howland has filed a lawsuit in New York against the Grenada Prime Minister along with his wife,  Marietta Mitchell and imprisoned international fraudster Eric Resteiner.

Rowland claimed that he was defrauded of a substantial amount of money by Resteiner and that the Mitchells have both benefitted from his loss. Court documents in the United States allege that Mitchell collected one million U.S dollars in bribe funds from Resteiner to make him a "General Ambassador" for Grenada.

Dr. Mitchell has consistently maintained that he collected "approximately US$15, 000.00" from Resteiner at his luxury villa in St. Moritz, Switzerland in June 2000 as reimbursement to cover the expenses of a delegation he was leading on a promotion mission to several European capitals and Kuwait.

Mitchell and his wife have hired the U.S law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, the same legal team representing Deputy Prime Minister Gregory Bowen in a separate court action filed against him by american oilman, Jack Grynberg. After Resteiner was sentenced in May to seven years imprisonment in Boston, Rowland filed a lawsuit in Brooklyn against the fraudster and the Mitchells' to collect the monies the Grenadian leader collected from the con man.

The true nature of Dr. Mitchell's citizenship may also be cleared up during the court hearing. The case filed against the Prime Minister and his wife list them both as U.S citizens.

Dr. Mitchell has continuously claimed that he is a Grenadian citizen.