Financial?crime has made a staggering rise in this country.
Today, Commissioner of Police, Darwin Dottin, announced that his investigators for the first quarter of this year, are dealing with more than $1.5 million in relation to finnancial crime such as fraud within institutions, credit card, cheques, etc.
The Commissioner told the Press that the workload of investigators had increased to such an extent that he has had to expand his team of officers probing financial crime.
“I have 17 officers working on financial crimes and we have taken the decision that we need to improve the skills in the financial crimes section,” he said.
Financial crimes may involve fraud (cheque fraud, credit card fraud, mortgage fraud, medical fraud, corporate fraud, securities fraud (including insider trading), bank fraud, payment (point of sale) fraud, healthcare fraud); theft; scams or confidence tricks; tax evasion; bribery; embezzlement; identity theft; money laundering; and forgery and counterfeiting, including the production of Counterfeit money and consumer goods.
