Confirmation has come that various professionals and business operators are now on the police radar as investigations intensify into the lottery scam.
Following Thursday’s revelation by Joshua Polacheck, Public Affairs Officer for the US Embassy in Kingston, that attorneys may be among persons to be extradited to the US in connection with the scam, a senior investigator said other groups are under surveillance.
Assistant Commissioner Clifford Chambers, head of the Counter Terrorism and Organized Crime Investigation Branch (CTOC), told RJR News that a wide ranging probe is in progress regarding persons who it is believed facilitated the lottery scammers.
The “information web” being “looked at”, he said, includes operators of car marts and even those involved in the commercial washing of vehicles, as well as others involved in real estate businesses, cambio operators, accountants, and persons engaged in the purchase and sale of jewelry.
The CTOC head said the focus is now on gathering evidence linking these persons to the proceeds of the lottery scam, “and they too can be arrested, charged and deported.”
It was important to determine, however, that they are aware “that the proceeds of the lottery scamming is what is being given to them to be so utilized,” Chambers stressed.
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