-SOCU probe found $343.8m in drugs, testing kits unaccounted for
The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) yesterday charged two former employees of the Ministry of Health’s Material Management Unit (MMU) Bond with money laundering in a probe that found that $343.8m in drugs and COVID-19 testing kits were unaccounted for.
The two persons charged are: Terrence Williams, a 26-year-old miner of Lot 123 Farm, East Bank Demerara, and Kerron Webster, a 29-year-old Lot 344 Middle Street, North Cummingsburg, Georgetown. The police in a statement yesterday did not identify the period in which the drugs and COVID-19 testing kits went unaccounted for. The MMU Bond is located at 1st Avenue, Diamond Housing Scheme. The police said yesterday that SOCU is currently pursuing forfeiture of the duo’s properties.
The two men were charged separately by SOCU. Webster appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court #5 before Acting Chief Magistrate Faith McGusty where he was not required to plead to the indictable charge. The charge accused him of contravening the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act.