Candidate for the leadership of the PNCR, Aubrey Norton says that he was on Saturday blocked by MoneyGram from receiving US$500 and does not believe it was regulatory procedures being adhered to but an abuse of this country’s anti-money laundering laws that speak to politically exposed persons.
“Yesterday when I went in, I said to the young lady, ‘I am here to collect’. She said to me to give her the reference number and I gave her the reference number. She said, `You are a politician, you are high up in politics and we can’t do nothing here. She said the only way I could get money is from the headquarters,” Norton told Stabroek News when contacted yesterday.
He had on Saturday taken to social media to call for a boycott of the remittance service here. “I had my own experience with political discrimination at MoneyGram this morning. I went to a MoneyGram location. I gave the cashier the reference number which she placed in the computer. She immediately said you are Aubrey Norton a political figure I can’t gave you any money since headquarters has to approve before I can pay you. She proceeded to tell me this is so because I am a political figure,” he said.