A taxi driver is being questioned by the police after a businessman whom he chauffeuring was robbed of millions on the Georgetown seawall yesterday.
Information reaching Stabroek News revealed that the businessman, Randy France, a fuel dealer of Barima, North West District was robbed of $6.2 million in cash and other valuables.
France told investigators that four men, one of whom was armed with a gun, pounced on him and demanded that he hand over the bag with the cash. France had withdrawn a large sum of cash from a city bank about an hour earlier. He also had an additional $630,000 and his gold chain in the said bag.
The man told the police that he and the taxi driver had purchased lunch and were eating at the seawall in the vicinity of Police Headquarters Eve Leary, when the robbery occurred around 1 pm. He told investigators that he was waiting on his 1.30 pm appointment at the Guyana Energy Agency.
France told investigators that the bandits escaped in a white Toyota Raum.
Stabroek News was told that the taxi driver was known to France as they had been doing business together for six years.
