A miner is being accused of offering a policeman raw gold as bribe in order to get a drug trafficking charge against his sister-in-law dropped.
Ernest Trotman, 39, of 584 Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo, yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charge that on May 9, at Issano Police Station, Mazaruni River, he corruptly gave an ounce of raw gold to Alex Vaughn, an officer employed by the government, as an inducement not to charge