Over 150 witnesses are expected to testify at the trial of District Four Re-turning Officer Clairmont Mingo, who is accused of seeking to falsify the results of the March 2nd elections.
State attorney Teriq Mohamed made this disclosure during before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in Georgetown yesterday.
Mohamed, in his presentation to the court, made an application for the summary disclosure which would allow Mingo to plea to the charges.
However, Mingo’s lawyer, Nigel Hughes, objected and questioned if the DPP planned to bring additional charges against his client.
After the state attorney revealed that statements were still being collected, Hughes suggested to the court that they select a long adjournment date. The magistrate agreed and the hearing was adjourned until December 11th, 2020, when a full disclosure is to be made to the defence.
Mingo and others are accused of attempting to rig the elections in favour of the former incumbent APNU+AFC and he currently faces four charges, including uttering a forged document to defraud the people.
He is out on a total of $600,000 bail.
Meanwhile Sheffern February, a clerk employed with the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) was also charged with two counts of attempting to defraud the people of Guyana, for which she was granted bail in the sum of $300,000.
Enrique Livan, an Information Technology officer at GECOM, was also brought before the court on a charge of manipulating the numbers of the statements of poll that were recorded in the system so that they reflected fraudulent numbers for District Four. He was granted bail in the sum of $150,000 on the single charge.
