FID boss welcomes court ruling against Reid, Pinnock
ROBIN Sykes, Chief Technical Director of the Financial Investigations Division (FID), has welcomed the decision of Chief Justice Bryan Sykes to strike down an application […]
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FID takes $34.6 million bite out of crime through Pecuniary Penalty Orders
Kingston, Jamaica: November 1, 2019 A former accounting officer of the Accountant General’s Department and a prominent Cosmetics Store Operator have been ordered to pay […]
Cop caught unloading ganja from vehicle fined $615k
A police constable who was caught unloading 530 pounds of ganja from his Toyota pickup truck at his home in Westmoreland on April 2, 2019 […]
Dimitris Kosvogiannis freed by Corporate Area court
Former hotel manager and businessman Dimitris Kosvogiannis was today freed in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court of a charge of breaching the Revenue […]
Jamaican police in Hamilton to help after senior defrauded in $100,000 lottery scam
An 80-year-old Hamilton woman scammed out of more than $100,000 in a fake lottery fraud goes to police. Hamilton police trace the money overseas. This is, […]
Financial Investigators Being Trained To Go After Ill-Gotten Gains
Financial investigations in Jamaica are receiving a boost with a programme aimed at training investigators in using the Proceeds of Crime Act to go after […]
Law-enforcement officers get training in financial investigation — finance ministry
The Government is working to improve investigation and prosecution in relation to money laundering and terrorist financing, by providing training for law-enforcement officers. Read more….
FID ‘quietly successful’ at tracking financial misdeeds
The plan to make the Financial Investigations Division (FID), which is currently part of the Ministry of Finance & the Public Service, into a department […]
‘Scamming and identity theft… honesty gone south’
The Webster Memorial United Church is set to stage an informative advocacy forum entitled ‘Scamming and Identify Theft… Honesty Gone South’ at the Half-Way-Tree Road church […]
Three more ‘dead claim’ accused sentenced
Three of the five people who pleaded guilty to the multimillion dollar ‘dead claim’ scam at the Accountant General’s Department (AGD), were sentenced when they […]