Moments after a group of SWAT and SOCU officers departed from outside his apartment at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, Assistant Police Commissioner Calvin Brutus said he will vigorously fight the charges to be laid against him.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has advised the Special Organised Crime Unit of the Guyana Police Force to proceed with its recommended charges against the embattled Assistant Commissioner. SOCU had recommended more than 240 charges in the matter following its investigations into claims of money laundering and financial improprieties by the Assistant Commissioner.

On Wednesday night, more than 10 SOCU and SWAT Unit ranks stood outside the apartment of Mr. Brutus for more than an hour and eventually left the scene as the media gathered.

The Assistant Commissioner later appeared before the media with his Attorneys and proclaimed his innocence while expressing concern about the large number of Police Officers sent to his residence located within the Police mess compound at the Eve Leary headquarters.

“I am concerned about the level of Force displayed here tonight. There is no indication that I am a flight risk. If I was a flight risk then, there are many options other than going through the official ports to get out of the country and we all are aware of these routes that you can use. I intend to vigorously defend these matters because there is clear evidence that what is happening is a lot of manipulation of evidence and fabrication of evidence just to make out a case against me”, he said.

Mr. Brutus said he was not at his apartment when the teams from SWAT and SOCU first arrived at his residence.

He explained that the officers indicated to him that they were there to execute a search warrant at his residence and they wanted all the members of the team to execute the search. The Assistant Commissioner said he made it clear to them that any search would only be carried out by the officer whose name appear on the warrant.

Brutus said the teams left not too long after without effecting any searches.

He described the money laundering and financial crimes probe against him as nothing more than a fishing expedition. He further explained that with regards to his company and the companies belonging to his wife that were the target of the probe, he had written for permission and had been granted permission to operate a business on his own. He said his company has never done any business with the Police Force, but that there were transactions involving his company and the Police Force’s Consumers Goods Complex.

The Assistant Police Commissioner said his wife’s companies were established before his company and that she has been doing business in keeping with the laws of Guyana.

During its investigations, SOCU discovered nine bank accounts linked to the Assistant Commissioner, his wife, and their companies along with their toddler son. In Court documents, SOCU said it found $500 Million in the nine accounts. Eight of the nine accounts have since been frozen by the High Court as part of the $800M investigation.

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