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POLICE CORRUPTION TRIAL STILL ONGOING SINCE 2021
Wilkie Arthur
Freelance Court Reporter
#TurksandCaicos, September 24, 2023 – The corruption case against Senior Police Inspector ALVIRTO SMITH and two others, namely: PAUL ANGENORD and WESLEY CAMPBELL is still underway in the Providenciales Magistrate’s Court before Her Honour Mrs. Oreika Selver-Gardiner.
The men were jointly charged with conspiracy to commit corruption, aiding and abetting corruption and a number of
The conspiracy trial that the learned Resident Magistrate has to consider and reach a decision on,(when the case arrives at it’s final date) are allegations that sometime on or around May 4, 2021, Smith and Angenord, who is a police mechanic ‘did act in a corrupt manner with one Christopher Hall in regards to a rifle firearm that Christopher Hall failed to declare.’
Wesley Campbell is also named in the alleged financial conspiracy deal or illegal agreement.
Christopher Hall, an accomplice in these proceedings went to a lawyer and then to Integrity Commission and got immunity for the firearm if he provided evidence against the others in the sordid case.
There were alleged cash and wire transfer payments to facilitate the alleged offenses.
This case has been partly-heard for months since arraignment in 2021, but there have been held, some consistent day by day proceedings over the past four weeks.