The APNU+AFC Government yesterday announced that it has ordered head of NICIL, Winston Brassington, and his deputy to proceed on immediate leave and has instructed that files be turned over to the police for further investigations to ascertain if any “criminality” was involved in the management of the government holding company.
“In Cabinet’s view there is sufficient information, provided in the report to the agencies, for them to explore further and basically dig deeper,” Minister of State, Joseph Harmon said at a post cabinet press briefing yesterday. He said that Brassington and his deputy Marcia Nadir-Sharma have been sent on leave with immediate effect to facilitate investigations by the Guyana Police Force and the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) stemming from the forensic audit report recently done on the entity.
The audit by former Auditor-General Anand Goolsarran, among other things, recommended criminal and/or disciplinary action against all those
