Members of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) last Friday swooped on the New Line Aquaculture Farm at Canal Number Two and conducted exercises which resulted in them seizing an undocumented boat and three vehicles.
According to a release from the Ministry of Home Affairs, during the operation the officers seized one fibreglass boat and three All Terrain Vehicles as the documents for them could not be produced. The release said the officials of the Customs and Trade Administration have been informed of the seizure and are currently conducting a joint investigation with CANU.
Efforts to contact the owner of the farm, Salim Juman-Azeez were not successful as the only number provided for his business was a cellular number which was switched off.
On Tuesday the United States embassy here refuted details in a Guyana Chronicle story carried on the same date and said the US had no law enforcement agents in Guyana.
The Chronicle, in a story headlined ‘FBI agents visit New Line Aquaculture Farm, vehicles seized’ reported that FBI and Drug Enforcement Agents (DEA) of the US visited the home Juman-Azeez last week and reported a police source as saying that vehicles belonging to the businessman were seized. According to the report, the visit was premised on the detention in the US of a close associate of the businessman.
But the Public Affairs Office of the embassy, in a brief statement to this newspaper had said that the US had no law enforcement agents, whether FBI or DEA, in Guyana and the embassy had no knowledge of the details in the Chronicle story.
