We also asked Musa for an update on the Jason Flowers case. He's the immigration cashier currently wanted by police for questioning in connection to a major theft investigation that occurred at the Department of Immigration. Musa shared that they learned Flowers isn't even in the country.
Jomarie Lanza, Reporter
"The employee of the Immigration Department who remains wanted, can you update us on the investigation?"
Kareem Musa, Minister of Immigration & Labour
"So the investigation has completed, at least the initial phase of it from an internal standpoint, meaning the Ministry of Immigration, our finance officer has given a statement to police, and that is what prompted police to issue the warning poster for Mr. Flowers. We have information that he is currently in the United States of America. He has been dismissed from his work as an immigration cashier. So he's no longer in the employment of the Government of Belize. We have enough information to charge him based on some of the invoices, some of the canceled, reversed invoices, but in terms of the entire scope of the scheme that he was operating, we have requested the Auditor General's Ministry to come in and do a proper audit. We want to get it right out of the gate. And so that will give you the full scope of it. I can confirm also that the Auditor General's Department is already at the Ministry carrying out the investigation, so at the conclusion of that, we will have every single invoice that was reversed by him and/or others taking part in this scheme, and then we'll be able to levy all the charges at that point."
