A Skeldon moneychanger was yesterday robbed of $3M in local and foreign currency while on his way to ply his trade at the Skeldon Market by three unmasked bandits armed with a cutlass.
After the robbery police questioned the man as to how he was able to accumulate such a large sum of money.
Daneshwar Panalall, also known as `Peter’, 40, of Lot 114 Eliza Mary, Springlands, Corentyne, explained that he was heading to work around 7.15 am yesterday on his motorcycle when the three men, one of whom was armed with a cutlass, attacked him at the head of his street.
Panalall said, “They knock me with the cutlass in my head and me fall down from the motorcycle and then them continue to knock me and them run through my pocket and gone… It happen so quick”.
According to Panalall, after the men escaped he began chasing after them and phoning the police.
“Them say the patrol coming but them ain’t come and I call back about six times and them come till about three quarter hour after”.
Panalall lamented his experience with ranks attached to the Springlands Police Station. He said, after the patrol arrived he was taken to the station instead of the hospital where he had to give five statements to ranks. “Every time one a them a come and take statement let me tell them what happen. Them a ask if me see them man clothes or wah colour hair them get but me tell them so quick the thing happen”.
However, he said to his surprise the ranks then began questioning him as to how he accumulated such a large sum of money and who he was working with.
Panalall noted, that at that point he got frustrated at the ranks and informed them that he wanted to go to the hospital, “Them tell me let me sign and go hospital and come back 12 o clock (yesterday) but I never go back because when me go hospital them give me paper to go X-ray and scans and the hospital X ray na work so me got to go Anamayah (Hospital) today”.
Furthermore, Panalall said he was wearing a silver band during the robbery which the bandits did not steal.
“Them police ask me how come the bandits na gone with that. Me tell them dem man only focus on the money and gone so quick, how me must know?”
