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Feb 27, 2016 News
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) has already expressed its interest to Canadian Law Enforcement officers in
having former Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the Guyana Power and Light Company (GPL), Aeshwar Deonarine, apprehended and returned to Guyana.
Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum made this comment on Thursday during the Police Officers’ Annual Conference.
Deonarine will be extradited from Canada to face larceny charges. “We have already informed our overseas law enforcement counterparts and I am in constant communication with them,” Blanhum said.
He added, “We have already expressed an interest in having him apprehended and returned to Guyana so that he can be brought to justice and face those charges which were instituted against him by the police.”
The former GPL top man fled to Canada last year after he was sent on leave by the coalition government.
Deonarine and former Board Member, Carvil Duncan, were accused of being part of a multi-million-dollar fraud at the power company.
The men are alleged to have illegally transferred close to $30M to their personal bank accounts from the PetroCaribe Funds.
Last January, Deonarine and Duncan, 73, were slapped with charges of conspiracy and simple larceny. The charges were read by Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan, in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
However, Duncan was the only one present in court since his partner in crime had already fled the country.
The 73-year-old man, who is the President of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG)
and General Secretary of the Guyana Labour Union, was accused of conspiring with Deonarine on May 7 and May 8 at Georgetown, to steal $27,757,500, property of GPL.
He was also accused of stealing $984,900 from GPL after conspiring with Deonarine on March 31, 2015 at Georgetown.
The former Director pleaded not guilty to the charges. He was released on $1M bail.
Attorney Charles Ramson Jr. represented Duncan.
This newspaper understands that prior to him being charged, he was offered a deal to repay the money. He allegedly said that he wanted it in writing that once he repaid the money he would not be prosecuted.
The charge followed when he later refused to make restitution. A warrant was subsequently issued for Deonarine’s arrest.
Kaieteur News was told that the discoveries of the suspicious transfers were made by independent auditors who were probing the PetroCaribe Fund, which holds proceeds of oil shipments taken from neighbouring Venezuela.
It was while tracking payments to GPL that auditors unearthed the abnormal transactions.
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