PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Oct 17, CMC – Police say a woman is assisting their investigations after they seized more than one million dollars (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) in cash from a house on the loutskirts of the capital earlier this week.
The police said that the TT$1.8 million was found at her Maraval home during an exercise including the Gang and Intelligence Unit and the Inter-Agency Task Force.
According to the police, the search of the house resulted in the discovery of a safe, within which TT$1,853,600 and $837 Barbadian currenc (One Barbados dollar=US$0.50 cents), were found as well as four police patches and a pair of black tactical pants.
The police said that the suspect’s mother, who was in the house at the time of the exercise, was taken into custody and that personnel of the Financial Investigations Bureau (FIB) were contacted and the cash seized in accordance with the Proceeds of Crime Act.
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