The Director of Public Prosecutions has advised the Special Organised Crime Unit to move ahead with its more than 240 recommended charges against Assistant Commissioner of Police Calvin Brutus.

Officials at the DPP’s Office have confirmed that the advice has been forwarded to SOCU.

Last week it was revealed in High Court documents in response to a case filed by Mr. Brutus, that SOCU had recommended more than 240 criminal charges be filed against Mr. Brutus, stemming from its money laundering and other financial crimes investigation of him.

The investigation was launched just over three months ago following concerns about some of the financial entries into the Credit Union account of the senior Police Officer.

There were no charges filed against him in relation to that probe, but the probe unraveled a web of concerning financial matters that led to a closer look of the bank accounts of the Assistant Commissioner. The Financial Intelligence Unit provided a report to SOCU with its money laundering concerns.

The probe uncovered nine accounts in the name of the Assistant Commissioner, his wife, his toddler son and companies registered in their names. The High Court has since frozen eight of those accounts, and SOCU said it uncovered more than $500 million in the accounts, while its probe covers more than $800 million in flagged transactions.

The Court documents presented by SOCU in a High Court matter detailed instances of the companies registered in the names of the Assistant Commissioner and his wife allegedly being linked to multi million dollar supply contracts for the Police Force and its Consumer Goods Complex.

Mr. Brutus has been overlooking the administration of the Force.

Many of the supply contracts for his wife’s companies were reportedly dolled out over the past year. One of the accounts registered in the wife’s name had more than $200 million, SOCU said in its Court documents.

The Court documents and investigations also unraveled details of businessmen handing over millions of dollars as gifts to the Assistant Commissioner for his wedding last November and Christmas. In one case, a Linden saw miller reportedly sent financial gifts to the Assistant Commissioner totaling more than $3million. In another case, it was reported that a businessman in Georgetown supported the wedding of Mr. Brutus to the tune of $8.5 Million.

The investigation also highlighted the alleged role of the Acting Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken, in seeking out financial gifts on behalf of the Assistant Commissioner to cover expenses.

The SOCU probe also uncovered a number of properties procured by Brutus over the past two years, including a property for $85 Million in Alberttown and another property on the West Bank of Demerara.

In a statement today, SOCU refuted a report in another section of the press that its Head had contributed a percentage of the purchase price for a property that Brutus reportedly bought.

In its statement, SOCU accused journalist Leroy Smith of being a “hired gun” for Mr. Brutus and using his media outfit to attack members of SOCU and its Head over their investigations, saying that it forms part of an attempt to discredit the probe.

SOCU intends to move ahead with the planned charges and the Assistant Commissioner could find himself facing the Courts before the end of the week.

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