Two men robbed a US-based Guyanese of over GD$1.5M in foreign currency and jewellery during a home invasion at Liliendaal, around midday yesterday.
Navindra Narayan, 34, told police that he and his friend Yusuf Greene were in the kitchen at the Lot 320 Sand Road, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara residence when the attack occurred. There was a knock at the door, a police source said Narayan told investigators, and he went to see who it was. Narayan was confronted by two men who were asking for “Avinash,” another man who used to stay at the Sand Road house. Shortly after, the men pushed past him and one of them pulled out what Narayan told police looked like a toy gun.
While one attacker demanded money from Narayan, the other made Greene lie face down on the floor. Narayan recently returned to Guyana for the Christmas holidays and was renting the Lilendaal house.
The man along with Greene, a third man and the owner of the building were staying at the house. The third man staying at the house, a senior police source told Stabroek News, has been taken into custody to assist with investigations. He remained in custody up to last evening. It was not common knowledge, the source said, that Narayan had travelled to Guyana with more than US$8,500. The man told police that he had bought a refrigerator and had about GD$200,000 and the remaining US currency in his possession. When the man with the toy gun demanded he hand over the cash to him, the source said Narayan gave him the Guyana currency. However, the attacker informed Narayan that he knew he had US currency and it was that he wanted. It was fear for the safety of his friend Greene that Narayan decided to give in to the attacker and handed over the cash and a quantity of jewellery.
While the attackers did not assault Narayan and his friend, the source said that the man told investigators that the incident has definitely ruined the approaching holidays for him.
