BREAKING: SOCU head gave Brutus/ wife large amount of cash on Wedding day but remained silent

L-R: Head of SOCU Fizal Karimbaksh whose leading the investigations against Brutus, stands with Brutus and his wife on their wedding day. karimbaksh had earlier given the couple a large amount of cash in an envelope as a wedding gift from him.

As the weak SOCU-led investigations into alleged financial irregularities by Assistant Commissioner of Police Calvin Brutus, it is becoming clearer that the Special Organized Crime Unit is compromised and its investigation into this matter has far-reaching implications and concerns including but not limited to political interference and conflict of interests.

The burning question in the investigation is where police officer Calvin Brutus got over GYD 40,000,000 (Forty Million Guyana Dollars) that he attempted to deposit into his bank account months after his wedding.

Brutus in statements admitted that the funds were given to him and his wife before, during, and after his wedding. What has remained a secrete for all the months of the investigations, is that while SOCU has been digging, jumping high and jumping low to find the source of the funds, it ignored the fact that its head, Assistant Commissioner of Police Fizal Karimbaksh who was also at the couple’s wedding, offered them a large amount of cash as his best wishes to them on their wedding day.

The revelations now bring to the fore the question of how impartial the SOCU Investigations into Calvin Brutus are, given earlier accusations where persons were recalled into the SOCU to change their statements and persons being held way beyond the 72 hours detention period after their statements to SOCU were not proving any actions of culpability on the part of Brutus. Were these manoeuvers done to protect the head of SOCU’s contribution to the source of the wedding funds that his agency was trying to uncover, is still unclear.

The head of a department within the Guyana Police Force claimed that his mobile phone was ordered wiretapped by operatives at SOCU. The officer confided in three individuals that he was called to a meeting with senior operatives at SOCU who instructed him to alter a statement he had previously submitted in the Brutus investigation.

in July 2024, The Special Organised Crime Unit commenced investigations into alleged financial irregularities by Assistant Commissioner of Police Calvin Brutus. As part of the probe, several documents were leaked to the public on face value which sought to suggest grave financial crimes and misconduct by Brutus.

Three months later and after dozens of statements, interviews, and confrontations, the Special Organised Crime Unit is unable to convince the Director of Publications that Brutus committed any crime.

In the meantime, SOCU and its head ‘well-trained and learned experts’ in financial crimes continue to pull up a wet but empty rod as the fishing expedition continues.