Opposition urges answers on non-submission of annual reports of FIU prior to 2011

Carl Greenidge

Members of the opposition want government to properly account for the lack of output by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) over the years it has been active and called government’s non-submission of annual reports for years prior to 2011 disdainful of the principles of transparency and accountability.

The report for 2011, tabled together with the report for 2012 at the last sitting of the National Assembly two Thursdays ago, pointed out that up to the start of 2011 the FIU had only two employees – its Director Paul Geer and another employee said to be an administrative assistant. It was only in the following