HEAD of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Assistant Commissioner of Police, Fizul Karimbaksh, has refuted an article published in the Sunday Stabroek News dated October 13, 2024, under the headline “Top Cop told SOCU he accepted envelope with $8.5m from businessman to finance Brutus’ wedding”.

The article alleges that “Top Cop, Clifton Hicken, submitted a statement to the investigators acknowledging that he collected an envelope with $8.5m in cash from a businessman to offset the cost of Brutus’s wedding at the Pegasus Suites Atlantic Conference Centre.”

Karimbaksh in a press statement said: “SOCU would like to place on record that the on-going investigation has no such statement from Hicken. And that no such statement about Hicken exists in the file,”

He also called on media houses to be responsible when reporting on matters that are of sensitive nature.