-key part of police file missing
The three senior New Building Society (NBS) managers who were fired after being implicated in a multi-million dollar fraud at the institution in 2006 have suffered a “grave injustice” according to Ombudsman, Retired Justice Winston Moore who has concluded that there was insufficient evidence to suggest that the trio was guilty let alone to successfully prosecute them.
“I can find in the Police file no evidence that would lead any fair minded person to conclude that any one of the three senior managers was guilty of fraud… The rush to the conclusion that the three top managers had orchestrated a massive fraud from the account of a depositor with their own organization, is an area that angels would fear to tread”, Moore said in a just completed 25-page report which points in the direction of a high-level attempt to frame then Director Maurice Arjoon and his two colleagues.
In his first major report since being appointed to the long-vacant post of Ombudsman in December last year,
