Hours after Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) ranks raided the Kitty home and Regent Street store of a businessman, former attorney general Anil Nandlall yesterday called on government to immediately make public the protocols governing the unit.
“The Minister of Finance speaks about stimulating growth …[which] will never happen in an economy where people are afraid to invest… to show what they own and …keep money and other valuables because they are liable to be invaded by SOCU and their properties are seized,” he told reporters at a press conference.
Nandlall detailed the early morning raid during which he said laptops and iPads belonging to the man’s grandchildren along with business related and confidential documents were seized apparently as part of a money laundering investigation. There are no reports of
