Perjury accused, Anand Sanasie, secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board and a former Director of the West Indies Cricket Board, was yesterday placed on $150,000 bail. Sanasie, who lives at Patentia, West Coast Demerara, yesterday appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave Hamilton, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, after being charged on Monday at around 2.30pm with perjury and placed on $100,000 station bail.
Sanasie’s lawyer Sanjeev Datadin last evening told Stabroek Sport that when the matter was called up, the Police Prosecutor told the Court that she was not ready to go ahead with the trial hence the adjournment.
The case has been transferred to Court One before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine Beharry and the matter will be called up again on July 26.
The 46-year-old Sanasie was accused of swearing in an affidavit that office equipment of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) were in his trust while knowing that the items had been transferred to DEB Essentials Organisation Incorporated, which Datadin said, is the commercial arm of the GCB. He was not required to make a plea as the charge is indictable.
Datadin said when Sanasie showed up in Court yesterday morning the charge was read to him and following that, he was put by the Court on $150,000 bail.
Datadin said yesterday he was upset by the adjournment but was confident that his client will be vindicated.
“I regret that the judicial system in Guyana is so slow, that it does not move quickly enough to protect the rights of its citizens when frivolous charges are brought against them,” he said.
