A former office holder for the Alliance For Change (AFC) party is facing fraud allegations in the UK.
The individual, who temporarily held a substantive position, is being accused of defrauding a number of individuals, which has in turn created fears that he might have tried to take advantage of the party.
Stabroek News understands that the individual has been out of the country and as a result he has not been engaged in party meetings or played an active part in the group. Additionally, there was no formal letter of appointment and he was never a signatory to any of the party’s financial accounts.
AFC Chairperson Sheila Holder told Stabroek News that the reports were extremely disturbing. However, she explained that the individual had distanced himself from the party since his name was not included on its list of candidates for last year’s general elections in August. She added that upon being informed of the allegations, the party attempted to contact the man through e-mail but there has been no response to either confirm or deny the claims.
In January of this year, Karen Felix alerted the party’s Canada branch about the individual. According to Felix, the man has been using unscrupulous methods to defraud unsuspecting individuals, particularly women, of substantial sums of money whilst travelling regularly to Guyana and purporting to own a successful real estate and construction company. However, the company has no real office although an individual answers the telephone and reroutes calls to his mobile after saying he is not in office.
Felix claims the man has owed her in excess of
