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$230,000 missing from police station

By Wendy Campbell

ACTING Commissioner of Police Everald Snaggs has called in the Fraud Squad to probe the disappearance of over $230,000 from a police station in the Western Division.

This follows on the heels of a police Inspector being charged with three counts of fraud, following an audit at the Financial Branch of the Police Service.

The officer has been charged with wilfully and unlawfully making a false entry in the revenue cash book of the Finance Branch purporting to show revenue collected for lodgings of firearms and miscellaneous revenue totalling over $21,000 which was deposited in the account of the Comptroller of Accounts.

He is also charged with two counts of stealing just over $40,000 in cash from the State contrary to the Larceny Act.

Following the officer's arrest, directions were given for financial audits at all police stations in the country.

Sources said officers from the Finance Branch began conducting audits in the Port-of-Spain Division and they came up clean.

The audit in the Western Division began on Tuesday, and the large sum of money was discovered missing yesterday.

Sources said when the discovery was made a senior officer from the Finance Branch contacted Snaggs who called in Fraud Squad chief Wellington Virgil and ordered a criminal investigation.

The missing $230,000 was collected from various sources to be deposited as Government revenue, and disappeared sometime between October last year and September of this year.

Yesterday Fraud Squad officers seized several record books from the Western Division. Snaggs confirmed that he gave instructions for a criminal investigation but said he preferred not to comment for fear of compromising the probe.

Up to late yesterday, no arrests had been made and Snr Supt Virgil is leading a team of officers in the investigations.

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