Cricket Board Secretary released on $150,000 bail after perjury charge

Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Secretary Anand Sanasie was yesterday formally charged with perjury, for allegedly falsifying an affidavit that was part of a High Court case.

Sanasie, 46, of Area ‘G’ Patentia, West Bank Deme-rara, was granted $150,000 bail by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, at his arraignment at the George-town Magistrates’ Court. He had been charged on Monday by police and released on station bail.

It is alleged that on January 30, at Georgetown, being the deponent in an affidavit for an injunction for damages and an order in the High Court of the Supreme Court of Judicature, Sanasie knowingly, falsely swore that the assets of the GCB were in his trust, well knowing the said assets were