Head of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Assistant Commissioner of Police Fizul Karimbaksh has denied a report in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek that Top Cop Clifton Hicken submitted a statement to the SOCU investigators acknowledging that he collected an envelope with $8.5m in cash from a businessman to offset the cost of Brutus’s wedding at the Pegasus Suites Atlantic Conference Centre.
“SOCU would like to place on record that the on-going investigation has no such statement from Hicken. And that no such statement about Hicken exists in the file”, a release from SOCU said. Karimbaskh called on media houses to be responsible when reporting on matters that are of sensitive nature.
