Account opened for Ponzi accused to reimburse, no money has flowed – police

Ateeka Ishmael and Yuri Garcia-Dominguez

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday said that a bank account was opened at the beginning of this  month in order to facilitate the return of millions of dollars invested by persons in suspected Ponzi scheme, Accelerated Capital Firm (ACF) however there has been no progress.

No funds were transferred into the account by the company principals, Yuri Garcia-Dominguez and Ateeka Ishmael after they were reportedly ordered by their lawyer to not conduct any transactions  until  the charges against them are withdrawn by the police.

This disclosure was made yesterday by Police spokesman Assistant  Commission-er  Royston Andries-Junor. He was at the time responding to claims made at a  press conference on Tuesday by the couple’s  lawyer that a bank  account was never provided to initiate reimbursement of the funds.