Police file on $600M ministry fraud back at DPP

The police file on the suspected $600M Ministry of Public Service scam, in which former minister Dr. Jennifer Westford and a former employee have been implicated, is now back at the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has confirmed.

Blanhum told Stabroek News yesterday afternoon that the file was sent to the Chambers earlier in the day.

Following the unearthing of an unauthorised attempt to transfer the registration of