A 50-year-old woman was ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Mas­ter of the Court on Wednes­day (De­cem­ber 18, 2024), af­ter be­ing charged with mon­ey laun­der­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the Po­lice Ser­vice, of­fi­cers of the Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Branch (FIB) ar­rest­ed Nir­mala Tam­bie on De­cem­ber 17, and for­mal­ly charged her with mon­ey laun­der­ing.

The TTPS says the charge fol­lows an ex­ten­sive in­ves­ti­ga­tion aris­ing from the seizure of cash in the sum of $618,283 in Trinidad and To­ba­go cur­ren­cy, and $18,746 in Unit­ed States cur­ren­cy, which was found dur­ing a search on March 2, 2023, at a res­i­dence lo­cat­ed at Jack­man Trace, Es­mer­al­da Road, Cunu­pia.

“This ex­er­cise was con­duct­ed as a re­sult of a re­port of lar­ce­ny which oc­curred in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion,” the TTPS state­ment re­vealed.  

It added: “The cash was seized un­der the au­thor­i­ty of Sec­tion 38 of the Pro­ceeds of Crime Act.”

The Po­lice Ser­vice re­ports that PC Dick of the FIB was de­tailed to in­ves­ti­gate the le­git­i­ma­cy of the seized cash, and based on ev­i­dence ob­tained dur­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, Nir­mala Tam­bie was charged with the mon­ey laun­der­ing of­fence.