By: Spokesman Newsroom
BASSETERRE (Friday 23rd October 2020) — A senior police officer who served as Assistant Secretary on the Board of Directors for the Police Cooperative Credit Union (PCCU) has been charged as the sixth individual in the 2020 money laundering case involving over $1 million of the Severance Payment Fund. Sergeant Fitzroy Morton was formally arrested and charged on Monday 19th October for Forgery and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering. He was granted bail of $60,000 with two sureties to appear at the Basseterre Magistrate’s Court on December 7, 2020. The other five accused — Deputy Labour Commissioner Dr. Deon Webb and four former PCCU employees — remain out on bail.