Prominent gold dealer and businessman Tamesh Jagmohan says that a letter dispatched to Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn asking that the authorities conduct an investigation of his business so that a “clean bill of health” could be issued had been done before.
The unorthodox move has raised eyebrows as Benn would have no mandate in initiating such a process and the authorities would be woefully ill-prepared to conduct such an examination of Jagmohan’s sprawling business interests, which lately include quarrying under the current administration.
Regulatory sources told this newspaper that “Mr. Jagmohan’s request is unusual” and “writing to the police for an investigation to give a business public clearance is not required for compliance for gold or any other trading”.