Resh­ma Ra­goonath

All op­er­a­tions and ac­tiv­i­ties in­volv­ing the Po­lice Ser­vice Sports Club have been sus­pend­ed as the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion Bu­reau in­ves­ti­gates al­le­ga­tions of mis­ap­pro­pri­a­tion of funds. Pres­i­dent of the Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion, Sgt Anand Rame­sar, con­firmed op­er­a­tions at the club had been sus­pend­ed pend­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion. He said he be­lieved the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion Bu­reau was con­duct­ing an au­dit of the ac­counts at the club, lo­cat­ed at the Po­lice Bar­racks, St James.

Rame­sar added: "I know they are au­dit­ing the books of the sports club. I am not aware of any crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tions. "They could have been man­dat­ed to per­form an au­dit but there is no al­le­ga­tion of mis­con­duct as far as I am aware." A source said of­fi­cers of the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion Bu­reau vis­it­ed the club's ad­min­is­tra­tive of­fice in mid-De­cem­ber and seized all its files. Since then the of­fice has re­mained closed and all sport club-re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ties have been sus­pend­ed. Rame­sar said it was not a usu­al prac­tice for the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion Bu­reau to car­ry out au­dits.