Bahamas Police Commissioner Clayton Fernander
Police Commissioner in the Bahamas Clayton Fernander says senior members of the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency are to arrive next week to oversee aspects of an investigation surrounding voice notes that purported to capture a quid-pro-quo arrangement involving a senior police officer, a lawyer and two murdered men, Michael Fox Jr and Dino Smith.
The conversation on the voice notes centred around a US$1.5 million airport bank car heist in November. Fox Jr and Smith were suspects in that matter but were never charged. Two other men - Oral Roberts, 34, and Akeil Holmes, 26 - were charged in connection with the robbery. Roberts was killed in the Fox Hill area last month.
Michael Johnson, the head of the Central Investigations Department, has taken garden leave as authorities investigate.
Michael Fox Sr, the father of Fox Jr, told The Tribune newspaper last month that his son gave him the voice notes and told him to release the recordings if he died.
He said he was not behind the release of the tapes. Sandra Smith, the mother of Dion Smith, said her son also informed her about the voice notes and their significance, but she never got them.
Days later, Sylvens Metayer, a man living in the United States who released the voice notes, was shot during a Facebook Live but survived the incident.
Meanwhile, Roberts was killed a week after meeting officers probing the matter.
Former Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis has urged his successor to appoint a Commission of Inquiry.
At the same time, opposition leader Michael Pintard has accused the administration of not acting urgently to protect the Royal Bahamas Police Force's reputation and preserve the public's trust in the institution.
Government officials previously said diplomatic notes were sent to the UK for help from the Metropolitan Police Force, also known as Scotland Yard.
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