While the PPP says indicted businessman Ed Ahmad made no financial contributions to its 2011 political campaign “nor can he be considered in any way part of the PPP structure or the PPP/C government” he was one of the contact persons listed for an April 29 event in the US where the party’s presidential candidate Donald Ramotar was introduced.
The event, which was sponsored by the Association of Concerned Guyanese (ACG)-USA at Club Tobago, was advertised on a flyer (see flyer at right) with the caption ‘Guyana Elections 2011.’ President Bharrat Jagdeo and Ramotar were listed as the featured speakers on the flyer while Ahmad was one of the five persons listed as contact persons for the event.
Ahmad’s Liberty Avenue, Ozone Park, New York real estate business is also one of the prime advertisers on the ACG-USA’s website with a