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Oct 01, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
I write with reference to a news story titled: “Home of US-based Guyanese burglarized” (Guyana Times Sept. 18th). The article reported that Jagdeo Persaud’s “sister . . . who lives overseas might have plotted with the men to commit the act … she might have known about the robbery”.
Let it be said here that I am that sister. My name is Shanni Persaud and I have an entirely different and fuller account of the entire matter.
I was there in person when the locks of the padlocked rooms were broken. We needed to clean the rooms to house a live-in caretaker to take care of a brother, Harry, who was discharged from the hospital and needed 24-hour care.
The rooms were extremely hot. It felt like the temperature came down 10-15 Fahrenheit degrees after the rooms and windows were opened. No one removed any items from the house. What I saw were mostly inexpensive household items, not million-dollar appliances or other merchandise.
Jagdeo made up these false charges of stuff missing. He felt he needed to compound the mischief and criminality he has committed in that house.
(2) Over the last five years it appears Jagdeo Persaud claimed or seized possession of the house, padlocked the rooms, and consigned the only remaining member of the family, living in Guyana, to the smallest room in the four-bedroom house.
Jagdeo created hell-like conditions in the house by preventing the free air-flow. That brother passed away in that house on September 14, one week after he was discharged from the hospital.
(3) The house belonged to my mother who passed away in New York in 2007. She did not pass ownership of the house to any one by sale or otherwise. I took care of my mother until she passed away. I never heard her say she wanted to Will or Sell her house to Jagdeo Persaud.
After she passed, it was discovered from papers copied from the Deeds Registry in Georgetown that my mother (supposedly and secretly) gave a Power-of-attorney to Keith Oudith who works at the Ministry of Finance in Georgetown, who then sold the house to Jagdeo Persaud. My mother never met Keith Oudith in New York – and having ten children alive, I can say categorically, she would not have given such a power-of-attorney to a total stranger, Keith Oudith.
(4) Since 2009 the family has been trying to get the Fraud Division of CID Eve Leary to investigate this matter. Last week I received unconfirmed reports that Detective Reid at the Fraud Division had been looking in this matter.
Recently, family members met Mr. Rekha, Finance Secretary at the Ministry of Finance who confirmed that Keith Oudith does indeed work there. As far as I know Keith Oudith has not yet been contacted by Guyana police- to investigate this bizarre turn of events.
How on earth could this man have met my mother in New York, much less receive powers to sell her house? My mother had ten children alive before she passed on in 2007. My mother would not ever – ever – pass her house on to one son only. A gigantic fraud (a criminal matter) had been committed here – and it is time the Guyana Police do something about this category of crimes and restore a sense dignity and respect for the laws of Guyana.
(5) It further appears that Jagdeo Persaud commandeered two cars, loaded them up with purported plainclothes detectives and went looking for John Persaud (brother) and Rabindranath Persaud (cousin) to do some sort of a citizen’s arrest.
Brickdam Police (Detectives Bowman, Herbert, Marshall – who report to Commander Hicken) have no record of any arrest team being dispatched to carry out any such arrest. It appears that Jagdeo Persaud in cowboy style hired his own arrest team and went out in Wild West fashion to effect an arrest.
Guyana Police, to protect their reputation, must find out who the members of this arrest team were – Were they for private hire? Kaloutie Rampersaud of Third Street, Windsor Forest, filed a report at Den Amstel Police Station providing details of two cars bearing (supposedly) plainclothes detectives led by Jagdeo Persaud who showed up at her house looking for John and Rabindranath.
According to descriptions provided by Kaloutie, one member of the arrest team was believed to be a doctor attached to the Georgetown Public Hospital. The members of the arrest team must be properly identified and account for their mission – who hired and assign them to this arrest mission? Guyana is not a Wild West country – at least not yet.
(6) Family members tell me they visited with Commander Hicken, Detectives Bowman, Herbert, Marshall (Brickdam); Detectives Makanlall, Colleen John, and Karim-Baksh (Office of Professional Responsibility, Eve Leary), Constable Sewsankar and Edmundsen of Den Amstel and many other divisions at Brickdam and Eve Leary – all in an effort to prod the GPF to get to the bottom of this matter. Police HQ must investigate these matters and ensure justice is done.
It is incredulous that so many properties in the last ten years (perhaps the number run into several hundreds) have changed ownership on the basis of fake power-of-attorneys. This is also a matter that should engage the attention of the Attorney-General.
One family member spent three days visiting the AG Ramson’s office in 2009 trying in vain to get him to investigate the spate of fake and rampant power-of-attorneys fraud sweeping the country. AG’s office said these are civil matters, not criminal. Stealing people’s properties are civil not criminal? Are we getting stupid in this country or something?
Shanni Persaud
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