
Assistant Commissioner of Police Calvin Brutus, who has been under investigation for money laundering and other alleged financial crimes, has turned to the High Court, seeking a number of reliefs and declarations, and contending that the investigations against him have been tainted and the move by the Government and the Acting Police Commissioner to send him on leave was illegal.
The application by Brutus was filed on the same day that the Special Organized Crime Unit, (SOCU) announced that it had recommended dozens of charges against the Senior Policeman and is awaiting advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Through his Attorneys, Earl Daniels, Youburn Allicock and Domnick Bess, Brutus has filed the Court action against the Attorney General, the Acting Police Commissioner, the Police Service Commission and the Special Organized Crime Unit.
The Assistant Police Commissioner wants the High Court to declare that Mr. Hicken acted beyond his powers back in July when he transferred him from the position of Acting Deputy Commissioner ‘Administration’, and he contends that there were political directives and improper administrative procedures.
Mr. Brutus is also taking on President Ali’s cabinet. He told the Court that that the Cabinet acted outside of its mandate when it instructed the acting Police Commissioner to send him on annual leave due to allegations of involvement in financial crimes. He wants the Court to declare the Cabinet’s decision illegal.

Further, Mr. Brutus also wants the Court to rule on whether the letter sent to the Acting Police Commissioner by Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn to send him on immediate leave was legal.
He has also contended that the rules of natural justice were not observed as the allegations against him were vague and he was not given an opportunity to respond.
Mr. Brutus through his Attorneys took a swipe at the current investigations by SOCU against him noting that the SOCU-led investigation, unlawfully and prematurely restrain him, but even more damning he alleges that the evidence has been manipulated and that there has been intimidation and the leaking of information to social media.
Brutus is also asking the Court to declare “that the investigation is inherently biased and irreparably tainted due to overwhelming and undue publicity, which has prejudiced public perception and undermined the presumption of innocence, thereby rendering the investigation fundamentally unfair in breach of his Constitutional rights,”.
SOCU has launched a wide-ranging investigation against Mr. Brutus, and while the agency said he had found no evidence to charge him in connection with its initial probe related to the Force’s Credit Union, a wider probe as a result of additional information received from the Financial Intelligence Unit, (FIU), appears to have cemented SOCU’s case, which led to the agency’s recommendation of charges.
Millions of dollars were unearthed in the Policeman’s bank account, which he claims represented Christmas and wedding gifts along with personal savings.
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