Suriname police believed that a 2007 piracy case involving three Suriname boats in waters near Guyana was more likely a case of insurance fraud, according to a WikiLeaks cable.
Then US Ambassador to Suriname, Lisa Bobbie Schreiber Hughes, related to Washington on August 23, 2007 that the co-owner of three Surinamese fishing boats had told police on August 18-19, 2007 that his boats were hijacked off the coast while fishing in Surinamese waters near Nickerie and Guyana.
The co-owner had reported that