Police checking IDB contracts to determine if signatures forged

Police handwriting experts are poring over contracts from an IDB security programme to ascertain whether fake signatures were affixed.

The police have now opened a probe of allegations of fraud in the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) Citizen Security Programme (CSP) . The allegations have further embarrassed the government, which is reeling from accusations of turning a blind eye to corruption. The IDB is undertaking its own probe.

Earlier this year, the IDB dispatched five contracts to the whistle blower/contractor in the matter