The Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force (RSVGPF) will be seeking help from its Guyanese counterparts in connection with several suspected teller machine fraudsters caught recently.
“Yes, we will very soon be contacting the Guyana Police Force for help,” Inspector Hawkins Nanton of the Public Relations and Complaints Department of the RSVGPF told Stabroek News yesterday.
The suspects appeared at the Serious Offences Court on October 3 before Senior Magistrate Sonya Young and were remanded to prison until February 4 and 5, 2013.
Asked about the length of remand time for those charged, Nanton said that Vincentian police have no control over remand time as that was at the court’s discretion.
Magistrate Young had told the virtual complainants that they were open to apply to the High Court to secure bail. Their defence lawyer was also informed that if the prosecution was ready before February 4, Magistrate Young would accommodate them.
On October 2 seven Guyanese – five men and two women- who gave their names and occupations as Rizwan Mohammed Meerza, 35, body-workman; Savitrie Sookraj, 34, acting manager; Kevin Orindio Mc Lennon, 29, computer technician; Aslam Mohammed Wayum, 47, welder; Gangadai Budam, 54, hotel manager; and Devindra Singh, 33, technician, were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit burglary on the twin island.
According to the charges, when not at their place of abode, the seven had in their possession two red handle pliers, one x-ray paper, one extension cord and other equipment for use in the course of burglary.
They were also charged with having in their possession two red handle pliers, one x-ray paper, one extension cord and other equipment which to their knowledge had been specially designed or adapted for making of an instrument which is false and that they shall use to induce someone to accept it as genuine and by reason of so accepting it to do some act to another person. The third charge reads that they were conspiring with each other to commit the offence of burglary on September 30.
The indictments flowed from investigations by the RSVGPF following the arrival of the Guyanese at the ET Joshua Airport, on Sunday, September 30. The reports said that among the items in the visitors’ possession were 314 data cards, two scanners with cameras, pliers, a magnifying glass, two data card readers, cords, a drill, X-ray paper, and a Toshiba laptop.
