An ex-police officer was yesterday placed on $400,000 bail when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court charged with falsely obtaining $6.4M for gun licences, before Magistrate Rushell Liverpool.
The court heard that between June 1 and June 30 at Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, the defendant, Paul Watson obtained $500,000 from Shavita Singh by falsely pretending that he was in a position to obtain a firearm licence for her father Seeram Singh, knowing same to be false.
Also between June 1 and September 30, he obtained