A quantity of jewellery that formed part of the evidence seized from a passenger has gone missing at Cayman’s Customs and Border Control, leading to an internal investigation into the disappearance.
However, CBC, responding to Cayman Compass queries on the missing jewels, declined to release the value of the items.
It has also confirmed that no officer has been suspended in connection with this matter.
CBC, in its emailed statement, confirmed that the quantity of jewellery was seized during the course of an investigation by its fraud section which involved an attempt by a passenger to evade import duty last year.
“One of the exhibits with some of the jewelry went missing during the course of the investigation and as a consequence of that, CBC instructed its Professional Standards Unit (PSU) to launch an internal investigation to determine if a formal referral to an external agency for an independent investigation is needed and/or if there was any negligence by any CBC officer(s) or other disciplinary matters which would require action by the Director of CBC,” agency said.
The PSU’s recommendations to the Customs director are “imminent”, it added.
The fraud section has since been disbanded.
However, CBC said the unit’s disbandment was not connected to the probe, but it “was simply part of CBC’s phased restructuring which consolidated all investigations under a single CBC Investigations Section”.
It added there will be no further comments on the matter.
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