The top police officer investigating former UDeCOTT executive chairman Calder Hart has been relieves of his responsibilities and transferred from the Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau (ACIB).The transfer of Senior Superintendent Terry Young to head the Guard and Emergency Branch (GEB) is with immediate effect.
Snr Supt Harold Phillip, former head of the Fraud Squad, has replaced Young as the UDeCOTT probe.
Acting Deputy Police Commissioner Gilbert Reyes confirmed the move in an interview with the Trinidad Express. He said acting Commissioner James Philbert made the administrative change before leaving on an overseas assignment.
Reyes told the paper the change will not affect the investigation, noting that Young's successor "is quite capable, just as Mr Young was, and we are confident that he is able to deal with the task at hand."
He added, "The investigations are ongoing and we are hoping to conclude it within the shortest possible time."
You and a team of detectives interviewed Hart at his Cascade home on April 13, three days after he returned to the country.
ACIB detectives, led by Young, had also raided the offices of UDeCOTT, Sunway (Caribbean) Construction, formerly CH Development Ltd, and chartered accountant David Montgomery and seized boxes of legal, financial and contractual documents and computer hard drives, the Express reported.
Hart is under investigation for alleged family links in the award of an $820 million contract to CH Development to construct and outfit the Ministry of Legal Affairs Tower in Port of Spain.
Attorney General John Jeremie launched the investigation in September last year after UDeCOTT tried to block the John Uff commission of enquiry.
That investigation is trying to determine if there was bid-rigging and manipulation of contracts in the award of contracts in the Ministry of Legal Affairs Tower and the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba.
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