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Suspicion surrounds release of Surinamese with US$200,000

Mar 19, 2011 News

Surinamese national, Roaul Winter, of 74 Arnold Gulem Nickeri Suriname did have more than US $200,000 on his person, a Kaieteur News source is insisting.
Winter and a driver were travelling in a car along the Corentyne public road on February 18, last around 23:15 hrs when they encountered a police road block.
A search uncovered the money, which the source said, was strapped to Winter’s body and some were in his luggage.
The source stated that what the police are now trying to do is put the blame on the poor police officers who were simply doing their job when they stopped the car.
The source queried the decision by the hierarchy of the police force to wait until the matter of the search and discovery of the money came to light to launch an investigation of extortion.
This investigation was launched this week, more than a month after the incident. The source is also querying why did instructions come for the man to go when he was found with so much foreign currency at that hour of the night.
The money should have been booked and an investigation launched, the source said.
A source closely associated with Winter had told Kaieteur News that Winter who was caught at a police road block with a large quantity of United States currency stashed among his clothes was allowed to go free after he made a phone call.
The man after he was held and a search was conducted the police unearthed the money among his luggage which was equivalent to over $40M in local currency. When the man was questioned he could not give an account of how he came by the money.  He along with the driver was taken to the station where he was fingerprinted and photograph.
However during the interim the man requested and made one phone call which he said was to a friend.
Not long after, instructions came down from senior officials that Winter should be released immediately and given back all his money.

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