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FBI executes search Friday
Source says U.S. Attorney’s Office still working on materials that FBI seized in probe against Gov. Torres, others
Photo shows one of the units at the Vestcor Village on Capital Hill that the Federal Bureau of Investigation allegedly searched last Friday. The FBI confirmed there was a raid on Saipan last Friday, but refused to comment about the specific location. (FERDIE DE LA TORRE)
The Federal Bureau of Investigation in Honolulu affirmed over the weekend that its agents executed a search warrant on Saipan last Friday.
In his reply to Saipan Tribune’s inquiry about a reported raid, FBI media coordinator/special agent Jason K. White said he can confirm that the FBI executed a search warrant on Saipan Friday, but declined to comment further.
A Guam-based online website first reported that Imperial Pacific International (CNMI) LLC’s employee housing, Vestcor Village, was raided Friday by the FBI and the Office of the Public Auditor. The subject of the raid is allegedly an IPI finance division employee.
The website posted a photo showing a man wearing an OPA jacket talking to someone, while a woman was standing next to the door of one of the units at Vestcor Village on Capital Hill.
Saipan Tribune checked the Vestcor Village last Friday past 11am, but did not notice any FBI or OPA agents there. A Vestor resident and a maintenance personnel said they did not notice any FBI agents there that morning.
An employee at IPI’s VIP and purchasing office located at Vestor said no FBI agents went to their office.
It is not clear whether the FBI indeed searched one of the units earlier that day and then left.
Meanwhile, a source disclosed over the weekend that the U.S. Attorney’s Office is still working through the materials that the FBI seized (not Friday’s raid) in connection with its ongoing investigation against Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and several other persons.
The source said documents are being provided to the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office per the subpoena to all the people covered in the investigation.
