Chad Bryan, Staff Reporter
A major operation led by the Revenue Protection Department with the assistance of detectives from the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) swooped down upon the offices of the Administrator General's Department (AGD), yesterday morning in a multimillion dollar fraud probe.
Five persons, including an employee said to be of the pension unit of the department, were taken into custody in connection to the probe. The probe, which commenced at 4:30 a.m., also took the detectives into sections of the Kingston 8 residential area and Higholborn Street in downtown Kingston.
It is alleged that over an unspecified period of time, monies were funnelled from the pension unit. The figure numbered in the millions.
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In yesterday morning's incident, several carton boxes and plastic bags packed with files were removed from the AGD, which were then loaded into the back of a minivan for transportation.
Cell phones belonging to particular employees were also temporarily seized. Certain employees, it is said, were also prohibited from making office calls outside the AGD and security inside the building was tight.
In the meantime, police investigators have revealed that charges will be laid against several persons at the end of the major fraud probe.
"They will be interviewed. The normal processes will be done. Charges will be proffered; I can't say if it will be proffered against all five, but I can tell you that persons will be charged at the end of it all. Persons will be interviewed before any charges are proffered," said media liaison officer at MOCA Inspector Dahlia Garrick.
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