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Senior Government official charged with indecent exposure
Narine Chattergoon, called ‘Ken’, 49, has been at the centre of a number of sexual issues over a period of time. Yesterday he appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Marcus-Isaacs in the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s court charged with exposing his genitals.
Narine Chattergoon, called ‘Ken
The offence is alleged to have been committed on Monday March 3, last, in his office at the Regional Democratic Office at Vryman’s Erven, New Amsterdam.
Chattergoon, who hails from Bath, West Coast Berbice, is the Regional Cooperatives Officer of Region Six. He allegedly molested a number of women. He found himself in hot water after one of the women decided to report one of the incidents to the police.
The man would tell them that he is a big one with the Ministry of Home Affairs and was in a position to secure jobs for them as Neighbourhood Police Officers. When the women would turn up at his office or the designated place of meeting he would make sexual advances and boast of his connections.
According to Prosecutor Sergeant Godfrey Playter, around 09:00 hrs on March 3,last, the 35-year-old mother of five was standing on the road in East Canje waiting to purchase milk when the man rode up on his motor cycle. After enquiring about something from her he was told by the woman that she is in desperate need of a job to take care of her children.
The man then invited the woman to his office. She reportedly told him that she might be unable to go because does not have passage. He then gave her three hundred dollars. He told the unsuspecting female that his name was ‘Anil’ and that his office was at the Regional Democratic Council Building. She should go there and wait, even if he was not there.
Desperate for a job the woman went to the pre-arranged venue. At the gate she met two security guards who told her there was no ‘Anil’ working there. She was however told to wait.
He subsequently arrived and the security guards told the woman ‘Oh that is Chattergoon’.
His lawyer stated that his client’s matter was a mere allegation and that he is a married man with a permanent address. He asked for reasonable bail. Chattergoon was placed on $75,000 bail and will have to return to court on July 18.
It is understood that Chattergoon who was the Liaison Officer to the Ministry of Home Affairs for a number of years in Berbice has since been removed from his post.
Before appearing in court he had approached some section of the media asking them to take it light with him, because he does not want his photograph in the papers.
Chattergoon was once implicated in the food poisoning scandal back in 2010 when close to 400 regular Police and Community and Neighbourhood Police officials suffered food poisoning at a retreat in Berbice. Chattergoon was the cook.
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