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Feb 27, 2014 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
Numerous letter writers over the years would have made their voices heard on the issue of public officers who commit criminal offences and are moved from one area to another with similar or even greater opportunity to do the same thing. In some instances they are returned to the same place and position to “pick up from where they left off,” and from all that I have read, to do so with a vengeance.
Once again, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is in the news. The entity seemed to be embattled by crooks and thieves. From reports emanating from the agency and other sources, it would appear that there is a vendetta being executed against the agency and its hierarchy by corrupt officers who have been disciplined and their businessmen cronies who would have had the law thrown at them.
It is common knowledge that some Customs Officers continue to be in the pockets of wealthy businessmen or they themselves are conducting competing businesses, which is the genesis of massively corrupt practices and very unethical conduct on the part of Customs Officers.
Not only are they strategically placed to influence the release of goods at questionable and suspicious values, but are being used to enforce the biddings of very corrupt businessmen of all categories, whether they are car dealers or importers of consumer items. The GRA needs A1 intelligence to rid the organisation of these criminal elements.
I echo the call by Mr. Khurshid Sattaur for members of the public, businesses included, to honour their civic responsibility and provide verifiable evidence of corrupt practices. Something needs to be done about these dishonest elements who, based on the recent GRA press release, are wreaking havoc for legitimate re-migrants by granting Remigrant status to overseas-based fake remigrants who, according to the GRA release, are working for corrupt businessmen.
What is the role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? They determine who is a re-migrant; so what do they plan to do? The GRA needs help!
Concerned citizen
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