Financial Investigations Bureau (FIB) detectives yesterday succeeded before Chief Magistrate Maria Busby Earle-Caddle at the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court with an application to have $410,100 forfeited and deposited into
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Police get orders to forfeit $.5m in seized cash
Tuesday 2 March 2021
POLICE have received cash detention court orders to forfeit close to $.5 million, which will be deposited into an interest-bearing seized asset in accordance with the Proceeds of Crime Act.
In a release on Tuesday, the police said their Financial Investigations Bureau (FIB) received three orders to forfeit $426,078.95 in three cases.
In the first case, FIB officers seized cash – TT$308,620; US$3,692; £1,830; CAN$140; and $10 said to be from the Netherlands, from Chris Harry, of Nanan Road, Lower Aranguez, on March 24, 2016.
A magistrate approved a detention order for the police to continue their investigations into the origin of the cash.