Tag: Anti-Corruption Commission

ACC to become a law enforcement agency

ACC to become a law enforcement agency

| 09/11/2022 | 45 Comments

(CNS): Changes to the Anti-Corruption Act (2019 Revision), which are expected to go before parliament next month, will make the current team of Anti-Corruption Commission officers law enforcement agents. In the past, the commission’s investigators have worked with the police, but amendments to the bill will “confer additional powers”. The legislative amendment comes just over […]

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Housing Trust chair charged with corruption

Housing Trust chair charged with corruption

| 28/10/2022

(CNS): The Anti-Corruption Commission has charged Geoffry Ebanks, the former chairman of the Cayman Islands National Housing Development Trust, with conflict of interest and breach of trust, contrary to the Anti-Corruption Act. Officials said Ebanks is due to appear in court on 8 November but made no further comment about the case. However, CNS understand […]

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‘I’m innocent’ claims Watson after week on stand

‘I’m innocent’ claims Watson after week on stand

| 06/10/2022

(CNS): Former local business leader and regional football executive Canover Watson told a jury that he was the innocent party in the prosecution’s $1.5 million football fraud case against him and his former CIFA and CONCACAF colleague, Bruce Blake. After a week giving evidence on his own behalf, Watson accused anti-corruption investigators of bias and […]

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Anti-corruption cops under HR internal review

Anti-corruption cops under HR internal review

| 26/09/2022 | 69 Comments

(CNS): The Commissions Secretariat, which has responsibility for the staff working for the Anti-Corruption Commission, has confirmed that some members of the investigation unit have been assigned to carry out their duties remotely while an internal HR matter is being reviewed. Officials denied that the officers had been suspended, but in line with civil service […]

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Two men arrested by anti-corruption cops

Two men arrested by anti-corruption cops

| 25/08/2022

(CNS): Two public officers were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of corruption and criminal offences, according to a release from the Cayman Islands Anti-Corruption Commission. Both men are 44 years old; one is from George Town and the other is from Prospect. However, the ACC investigators did not provide any details relating to the allegations or […]

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ACC refers North Side ‘soil scandal’ to prosecutors

ACC refers North Side ‘soil scandal’ to prosecutors

| 11/07/2022

(CNS): The Anti-Corruption Commission has referred a file to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in relation to the National Housing Development Trust, the ACC said in a release. The ACC became involved in the ‘soil scandal’ when residents in North Side raised concerns that topsoil and fill cleared from crown land earmarked […]

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ACC probe underway into NHDT topsoil scandal

ACC probe underway into NHDT topsoil scandal

| 09/06/2022 | 76 Comments

(CNS): Deputy Governor Franz Manderson told Opposition Leader Roy McTaggart that he could not give him any information about the allegations that topsoil and fill taken from the National Housing Development Trust site in North Side were misappropriated because the issue was under investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commission. In Parliament on Thursday, Manderson also revealed […]

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Woman jailed over drivers’ licensing fraud

Woman jailed over drivers’ licensing fraud

| 17/12/2021 | 64 Comments

(CNS): A former civil servant who worked at the Department of Vehicle and Drivers’ Licensing (DVDL) was jailed on Friday for nine months and two weeks, following her conviction earlier this year for corruption offences relating to dozens of licences she gave out to drivers who had not passed a driving test.

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Webb’s sentenced postponed for eleventh time

Webb’s sentenced postponed for eleventh time

| 23/09/2021 | 37 Comments

(CNS): Jeff Webb, Cayman’s disgraced football hero and former CONCACAF president and FIFA vice president, has had his sentencing hearing for his role in the FIFA corruption scandal postponed yet again. The case has been pushed back to December, six years after the George Town man admitted his part in the FBI investigation that shook […]

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Anti-corruption pledge becomes secret

Anti-corruption pledge becomes secret

| 12/04/2021

(CNS): Following the launch of the awareness campaign to highlight election corruption, aimed at keeping the 2021 elections clean and transparent, a key element of it has now become a secret. The General Election Against Corruption Today (ACT) Education Campaign included the 50 candidates publicly signing a pledge to uphold standards while competing for a […]

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Candidates face growing requests for cash

Candidates face growing requests for cash

| 16/03/2021

(CNS): Alric Lindsay, an independent candidate for George Town South, told CNS he is seeing an acceleration in requests from voters for cash as he canvasses in his constituency and is worried that voters don’t understand that selling their vote is against the law because of the legacy of politicians who have been wiling to […]

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