Police officer, former GRA staff found guilty of computer forgery

Jan 25, 2025 News

Kaieteur News- A police officer and a former staff of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) were, on Friday, found guilty of computer-related forgery by Magistrate Annette Singh at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

The accused were identified as Winston Small (police officer) and Reguel Jack (former GRA staff).

Police, in a statement, said that Magistrate Singh sentenced Small to six (6) months imprisonment while Jack was fined $100,000, which is to be paid within two (2) weeks. Should he be in default, he would face six (6) months imprisonment.

Police officer, former GRA staff found guilty of computer forgery

Winston Small (R) and Reguel Jack (L)

“The Prosecution contended that an investigation conducted by SOCU revealed that in October 2021, Small arranged with Shaquan Caesar, a minibus conductor, who was working with Antoney Salaman Jacobs, a bus driver, that he could get a driver’s licence for him for $83,000,” the Police said.

Caesar was told by Small that he could use Antoney’s driver’s licence and that he would get someone from the GRA to change the photograph. As such, the conductor reportedly obtained a photograph of the bus driver’s licence, and the duo went to a clerk at Maraj Building, Georgetown, and stated that Caesar [the bus conductor] is Antoney Salaman Jacobs [the bus driver].

Reportedly, the men told the Clerk that Caesar lost his driver’s licence and his identification card and requested an affidavit to take to GRA to process his driver’s licence.

After the document was obtained, Small took Caesar to GRA with the affidavit where Jack, a GRA Lodgment Clerk, took Caesar’s photograph via the Licence Revenue Processing System (LRPS) and processed a driver’s licence for him in the name of Antoney Salaman Jacobs with Jacobs’s driver’s licence details.

The Magistrate found that the elements for the offence of computer-related forgery were properly established and both Small and Jack were found guilty.

The matter was prosecuted by Attorney-at-law and Prosecutor David Brathwaite, Prosecutor Aaron Daniels, and Prosecutor Neville Jeffers from the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU). Small was represented by Attorney-at-law Clyde Forde, while Jack was represented by Attorney-at-law Ronald Daniels.

(Police officer, former GRA staff found guilty of computer forgery)

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