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Dec 13, 2018 News
Four men who are accused of aiding another to traffic some $550M in cocaine that was concealed in lumber will know their fate next month when Magistrate Rushelle Liverpool hands down her ruling, after months of recording evidence.
Stephen Vieira of Middle Street, South Cummingsburg, Nazim Gafoor and his father Tazim Gafoor, both of Menzies Street, Windsor Forest, West Coast Demerara and former Customs Officer Sherwayne De Abreu of Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown, are jointly charged.
It is alleged that between March 1 and May 2, 2017 at a sawmill belonging to Narine Lall located at Lookout, East Bank Essequibo, they aided Hakim Mohamed to traffic 84.986 kilograms of cocaine. They have each denied the charge and are out on $5M High Court bail each.
They are being represented by Attorneys-at-Law Latchmie Rahamat, Everston Lammy-Singh, Glenn Hanoman, Latchmie Rahamat and Nigel Hughes respectively.
Yesterday, when the matter continued the Gafoors and De Abreu led their defence. Vieira had done same the previous day. Essentially, the defendants denied having any knowledge of the cocaine, and of same being packed into lumber for exportation to the USA.
Thereafter, the Magistrate announced that she will make a ruling in the matter on January 24, 2019, but according to her, the date is tentative.
CANU is contending that its ranks descended on the front of the premises of Mohamed and searched a truck laden with several pallets of 1×6 dressed lumber boards prepared for export. Several pieces of boards were drilled randomly by the ranks and the cocaine was unearthed.
The lumber was packed at a sawmill located at Lookout, East Bank Essequibo belonging to Lall, to be transported to a wharf in Georgetown and then to be shipped to United States of America, CANU stated. CANU said that Vieira was listed on the shipping documents as a representative of the shipper, Lall.
The defendants were called upon to lead a defence after Magistrate Liverpool overruled no-case submissions made by lawyers for them. The Magistrate had ruled that a prima facie case was established at the close of the prosecution’s case which was led by Attorney-at-Law Konyo Sandiford.
The matter is being heard at the Leonora Magistrate’s Courts.
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