Police constables Julian Smartt, and Winston Williams, reappeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday where they were charged with bribery, a day after an incomplete file caused that matter and another pertaining to an $8m robbery to be thrown out.
It is alleged that on November 29, while at the Prashad Nagar police outpost in Georgetown, and being agents of the Government of Guyana, they attempted to obtain from Chinese national, Qi Lin, the sum of $150,000 as an inducement to forego prosecution for using a cellphone while operating a motor vehicle, while said vehicle was uninsured and unlicensed and act in relation to their principal affairs.
Additionally, Williams was charged after it was alleged that on the day in question at Amla Avenue, Prashad Nagar, and while being an agent of the Government of Guyana, he obtained from Qi Lin, the sum of $30,000 for his personal use and as an inducement for forgoing prosecution for use of a cellphone while operating a motor vehicle, as well as operating an uninsured and unlicensed motor vehicle.