Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall has said that he had previously told the government that using the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) to investigate matters outside of financial crimes may violate Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations but was ignored.
In correspondence sent to Stabroek News, Nandlall, who was instrumental in the establishment of SOCU, under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) legislation, stated that the unit’s scope has been expanded under the recently released