Police yesterday requested additional time to complete statements to be served to Anjanie Boodnarine, the wife of convicted drug lord Barry Dataram, who is facing charges of forgery, fleeing the jurisdiction and leaving the country illegally.
Boodnarine, 21, of Lot 79 Patentia Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara, stood before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday for the statements to be served to her lawyer. However, according to Police Prosecutor Neville Jeffers, some statements were still outstanding. Jeffers told the court that only two police statements were completed at the time.
As a result, he requested that police be given more time to complete the statements.
Boodnarine was recently charged with conspiring with others to commit a felony by forging a Guyana passport, attempting to defeat the administration of the law and departing Guyana without presenting herself to an immigration officer.
The magistrate subsequently adjourned two of the matters—fraud and fleeing the jurisdiction while a matter was pending—until November 22 in Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, while the other matter—for allegedly failing to present herself to an immigration officer at Springlands—was transferred to the Springlands Magistrate’s Court.
Both Boodnarine and Dataram were caught by authorities in Suriname last month after they skipped out on the decision in their trial for cocaine trafficking. While Dataram was found guilty, the absent Boodnarine was acquitted. He has since been sentenced for the charges stemming from his flight.
