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A Port of Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion em­ploy­ee has been charged with fraud and mon­ey laun­der­ing fol­low­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Branch (FIB).

Po­lice said the probe be­gan in Sep­tem­ber 2024 af­ter an ac­coun­tant at the Cor­po­ra­tion dis­cov­ered dis­crep­an­cies in the pay­roll sys­tem.

Checks re­vealed that Na­tion­al In­sur­ance Sys­tem (NIS) de­duc­tions were record­ed for three in­di­vid­u­als who were not list­ed as em­ploy­ees dur­ing the rel­e­vant pay pe­ri­od.