The Bermuda Police Service have been conducting a joint operation against the business interests of Ewart Brown, the former Premier, over the past two days.

According to a spokesman, officers from the Organised and Economic Crime Department of the BPS executed search warrants at two medical offices on Saturday in connection with an ongoing investigation.

“The timing of the warrants was intended to minimise the impact on the businesses and their clients,” he added.

“A number of records were seized during the searches. Significant steps have been taken to protect the confidential nature of the information and to ensure that patient safety is not jeopardised in any way.”

No further information would be given, the spokesman said, as the matter remains “an open and active investigation”.

This evening’s statement came after eight police officers arrived at Dr Brown’s Brown-Darrell Clinic in Smith’s yesterday afternoon with a warrant to search the property.

The first officer was at the scene before 1.30pm, with others joining within the next hour.

By 2.15pm, a police car and van were in the car park, with officers in uniform standing on guard and others in plain clothes moving around the property, where they remained for the rest of the day and through the night.

A similar police presence has been at Bermuda Healthcare Services in Paget, where uniformed police and several plainclothes officers are on location.

Both facilities have been taped off and, at 9am today, officers remained at both scenes.

Dr Brown, the Premier of Bermuda from 2006 to 2010, is off the island.

At 4pm yesterday, Progressive Labour Party MP Derrick Burgess briefly visited the Brown-Darrell Clinic and, in demanding access to the property, told police officers that no crime has been committed.

Police gained access by breaking a window and forcing open the front door of the clinic, shortly after 4.30pm

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