Founder of the Drugs Sou Sou (DSS), Kerron Clarke, has been charged with four counts of money laundering.
An official statement from the T&T Police Service yesterday confirmed that Clarke was granted bail in the sum of $80,000 with a surety by Justice of the Peace Stephen Young on Tuesday.
The decision to lay the charges followed advice received from Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Joan Honore-Paul.
Clarke arrived on a flight at the Piarco International Airport on Monday, where he was arrested by officers of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU).
Police also confirmed that the SIU officers subsequently handed him over to the officers of the Financial Investigations Branch, who laid the money laundering charges.
Clarke is scheduled to appear at the Arima Magistrates’ Court on June 27, 2022.
Clarke’s DSS was first raided on September 21, 2020, by officers of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT). Around $22 million in cash was taken by police to the La Horquetta Police Station but was later returned to DSS. In October 2021, DSS was raided again, this time by officers of the Financial Investigations Branch and approximately $7 million was seized.
Clarke also opened a pawn shop in September of 2021.