Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) secretary Anand Sanasie, who was yesterday charged by the Guyana Police Force with perjury, last night told Stabroek Sport that he was being harassed.
Sanasie was yesterday afternoon arrested and charged with perjury by the police in relation to an affidavit he filed with respect to the assets of the GCB. He was placed on $100,000 bail and told to appear in Court this morning at 9am.
He told this newspaper last night that he felt he was being harassed.
“For a couple of months now I’ve been harassed. I did not want people to know I stayed quiet and so on. Two or three times they (the Police) asked me to go in there on this same matter and they just tell me `go along your way’ whenever we need you we will call you.
“ Today, I dropping my kid home, I live over the river. These people had Special Branch following me on a motor bike and I suspect something. By the time I land at my house where I live, I live in a cul-de-sac, I see a Police Vehicle turn up with about six detectives and they say I have to report to the Eve Leary Police Station. I asked them if I was under arrest and they said no! I have to go with them.”
He continued:”I went along with them because it did not make any sense fighting. When I go they placed me under arrest, put me in the lock ups, well you know they have a holding cell and say they have to wait on Seelall (Persaud).”
Sanasie said he was told that he had committed perjury in one of the matters presently engaging the attention of the Court.
“I am aware that this matter was sent by the Police to the DPP before and the DPP sent back the file and said there was no perjury. They wait until the substantive DPP come out sent back the file again and now apparently she said `yes you could charge’,” he related.
Sanasie said he was upset with the latest development and will no longer keep silent.
“I have to come out now and start talking because of what these people are doing. Imagine, I have to watch over my shoulders all the time. I feel very threatened. They say in an affidavit that I swore on the advice of a lawyer and all I said was that at the time I swore on the affidavit, that, as the secretary of the GCB, these items are held in trust and are in my possession. As the secretary, the secretariat, I am responsible for it and that’s all I said. They said at the time I was probably aware of the DEB Essentials and the transfer but that was in process. I was probably aware of the DEB but that was in process at that time and the process was not completed so there is nothing wrong, “he argued.
Sanasie stopped short of saying that there was a witch hunt on but he did say that the authorities, despite having all the books of the GCB, are yet to find evidence of corruption.
“They have everything for the Cricket Board all the books. They ain’t find no corruption. Everything they have for the Cricket Board. They have found nothing. All the allegations they have against the Cricket Board, they have found nothing. They going after me personally now.”
