UWP Asks Police Chief to Invite External Investigators for Money Laundering

UWP President Isaac Baptiste is calling on Acting Police Chief Lincoln Corbette to invite external investigators to unravel the mystery behind the recovery of a cache of US dollars which amounted to EC$1,322,667 in Paix Bouche.

Just last week, Corbette announced that the police are investigating cases of suspected money laundering, work permit fraud, and at theft at the Treasury. Since the police are yet to get to the bottom of the cases, Baptiste said external assistance might be needed if transparency were to be maintained. Corbette had however revealed that two men, Aronnie Armstead Stedman and Kendel Sylvester, were arrested in connection with the cache of money.

Baptiste contends that “we are aware that the capacity to investigate money laundering in Dominica is very limited” and that the Chief of Police should “ask for outside assistance” to get to the root of the matter. According to him, inviting external investigators may open other cans of worms that might be of interest to the public in Dominica.

Meanwhile, Opposition Leader Lennox Linton argued that the police have been lax in conducting thorough investigations into cases that are of paramount interest to the public. He accused the police of being partisan to the DLP administration to the detriment of the common man on the street. He questioned how the police could uphold the rule of law if they are irregular in their service to the people and the nation.

He tasked Dominicans to hold the police up to scrutiny so that they can be less impartial in the way they function.  

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