A Port of Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion em­ploy­ee has been charged with fraud and mon­ey laun­der­ing fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Branch (FIB).

Po­lice said the probe be­gan in Sep­tem­ber 2024 af­ter an ac­coun­tant at the Cor­po­ra­tion dis­cov­ered dis­crep­an­cies in the pay­roll sys­tem.

Checks re­vealed that Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Sys­tem (NIS) de­duc­tions were record­ed for three in­di­vid­u­als who were not list­ed as em­ploy­ees dur­ing the rel­e­vant pay pe­ri­od.

Fur­ther in­quiries con­firmed that salaries were im­prop­er­ly paid to the in­di­vid­u­als and the mon­ey was di­vert­ed in­to the per­son­al ac­count of the clerk who processed ca­su­al em­ploy­ees’ pay­ments.

On Thurs­day 4th Sep­tem­ber 2025, of­fi­cers of the FIB, led by Woman Po­lice Con­sta­ble Williams, ar­rest­ed the sus­pect at the Cor­po­ra­tion’s Knox and Fred­er­ick Streets of­fice.

The em­ploy­ee was lat­er charged with ob­tain­ing mon­ey by false pre­tence un­der the Lar­ce­ny Act, Chap­ter 11:12, amount­ing to TT$29,174.50, and with mon­ey laun­der­ing un­der the Pro­ceeds of Crime Act, Chap­ter 11:27, for re­ceiv­ing TT$14,210.50, know­ing it to be crim­i­nal prop­er­ty.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was over­seen by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Avinash Singh, Su­per­in­ten­dent Rawle Ramdeo, and Woman As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent Weaver Ali, with op­er­a­tional sup­port from In­spec­tor Mo­hammed and Sergeant Es­lam. Sergeant Mings pro­vid­ed le­gal guid­ance.

Po­lice said the TTPS re­mains com­mit­ted to hold­ing in­di­vid­u­als ac­count­able for fi­nan­cial crimes and pro­tect­ing the in­tegri­ty of pub­lic in­sti­tu­tions.