A Corentyne man who was held in connection with the recent piracy attack off Suriname, was yesterday remanded to prison, after he was charged with committing two robberies on the sea in 2015 and 2016.
Nakool Manohar, 39, of Lot 1, Number 43 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, was brought into the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, who read the charges to him under Section 3 of the Piracy Act 10:08.
The first charge against the accused stated that he, between April 1, 2015 and April 30, 2015, in the territorial waters of Guyana, in the company of others and armed with guns and cutlasses, robbed the vessel “Sir Navin”, owned by Daneshwar Reddy called “Smalley”, of two 48 horsepower outboard engines valued at $1,800,000, property of Reddy.