The Auditor General's found that this could be a violation of the prevention of public life act. Today Commissioner Williams said that it could be a violation of the law - and that's what police are looking at.

Reporter
"Has your office been given directive to investigate Herman Longsworth, in terms of to see whether any criminal charge can be levied against him and other players like the former acting sports director?"

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"I don't think I need a directive from anybody to do my job. If it is that there is some degree of evidence or what we refer to prima facie evidence that a crime has been committed, it is the duty of the police to investigate and Mr. Longsworth was named in the audit report. There are certain that was said that he did. That is prima facie evidence that a crime has been committed and so he is going to be a subject of the investigation as well. The investigators will have to go after him and do what needs to be done if in fact he had committed a crime."

"In order for there to be a police investigation there must be a complainant. I have already advised Mr. Aban how we are going to approached this to have a complainant. We have identified who that complainant is going to be. I am not going to say publicly. I have also discussed with that complainant and request from him what we need to get from him to be able to further our investigation. He has agreed that he is going to be of assistance in whatever what he can to ensure that the police investigation can flow. I believe that Mr. Aban met with that person today and may have recorded that statement from the individual. Then with that there is the need for us to be able to collect banking information. Now banking information is not something you can walk into the bank and tell them we need this. But the Anti Terrorism and Money Laundering Act does provide the mechanism or it gives the FIU the authority, the teeth, to be able to request these financial statements from the banks and it is incumbent upon the bank to ensure that they provide to F.I.U. We will rely on the F.I.U. to be able to collect the banking information which is going to form part of this investigation so that we can flow with this investigation. I really and truly don't want us to see this investigation drag for too long. I expect that within a reasonable time that the investigation will be completed and we will be able to present the file to the D.P.P. for her to make her determination as to where we go with it."

Longsworth today issued a one page letter explaining his position on the allegation. He says that, a company he was, quote, "affiliated with" was hired by the Sports Council to complete works at the Marion Jones Stadium.

He said that works were completed by this company, quote, "to a value exceeding that which was paid to them by the Sports Council." To prove this her circulated a number of pictures showing the works, but it seems he's taking credit for what he didn't do. The current Sports Director Ian Jones said the pictures which Longsworth sent out make it seem that Go Enterprises completed more works than it actually did. In a 2017 facebook post, he said those were finished under his tenure - and not for 150 thousand dollars.

But, back to Longsworth's letter, he says he understands that his relation to the company has, quote, "cast a shadow over the Barrow Administration" but stresses that there was no malicious intent, quote "despite the perception of impropriety"

We note that the Auditor General found that Longsworth was the only signatory on the bank accounts for "Go Enterprises".