Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe has been sent on leave, days af­ter the Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (POA) com­plained about al­leged VIP treat­ment be­ing giv­en to busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, who is cur­rent­ly in­car­cer­at­ed at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in Arou­ca un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO).

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that Cor­raspe was sent on leave for four months. Su­per­in­ten­dent Elvin Scant­er­bury has been cho­sen to act dur­ing his ab­sence.

In con­firm­ing the root of the is­sue yes­ter­day, POA gen­er­al sec­re­tary Lester Lo­gie said he wrote to Cor­raspe about the mat­ter on Fri­day, copy­ing the let­ter to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der.