– detective testifies
A police detective yesterday testified that Hardat Kumar, one of the five persons accused in the July 12, 2012 $7.2 million Bel Air heist, confessed that it was the mother of their victim who orchestrated the robbery.
As the trial continued yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, Detective Constable Rondel Gouveia, who is attached to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), said that Kumar confessed via a caution statement that Annie Ramsood’s mother, Chandra Ramprashad, planned the robbery.
Kumar, Ramprashad and Jermaine Mitchell, Aubrey Simon and Rayon Jones are charged with robbing Ramsood of $1.4 million and US$29,000 (equivalent to $5.8 million), totalling $7.2 million. They were also