Assistant Commissioner of Police Calvin Brutus will be removed from that position when charges against him are formalized by the Director of Public Prosecutions, according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall.

On his weekly programme “Issues in the News“, Mr. Nandlall said the charges against Mr, Brutus are imminent and once the charges are filed, the process to remove him from office will be activated. 

The Special Organised Crime Unit has recommended 240 charges against the Assistant Police Commissioner following a money laundering probe.

Mr. Brutus has filed a Constitutional motion against the Government, the Acting Commissioner of Police and the Police Service Commission for sending him on leave as part of the investigations against him. He has asked the Court to nullify the process being used to investigate him, describing it as tainted.

SOCU has indicated that its probe of the Assistant Commissioner covers more than $800 Million, including $500 Million that was uncovered in bank accounts linked to him.

As SOCU now awaits advice from the DPP, Attorney General Nandlall hinted that the filing of charges is a done deal.

“Obviously, when the charges are instituted, steps will have to be taken by the relevant agency and in compliance the relevant legal process to remove Mr. Brutus from office but that will happen soon,” the Attorney General said.

Observers have described the probe against Brutus and revelations in Court by the Special Organised Crime Unit as a fall from grace by a man who had eyes set on the top position in the Force.

The allegations of financial crimes, improprieties and other corrupt practices have put him on the other side of the law.

So much so, that the Attorney General is suggesting that the allegations against the Assistant Commissioner might be the first at this scale, at his level in any part of the Caribbean.

“Mr. Brutus will go down in history as perhaps the highest ranking officer of the Guyana Police Force to be implicated in this volume of fraud. I believe he will go down in the Caribbean as an officer of such rank to be implicated in this level of criminality,” Nandlall said.

The Attorney General said the government stayed clear of the investigations into Mr. Brutus by SOCU and said that the Court action filed by Mr. Brutus and subsequent replies provide more information than was actually known.

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