Roger Khan was in phone contact with Suriname Pres. Bouterse in 2005/2006

Roger Khan was in phone contact with Suriname Pres. Bouterse in 2005/2006 – DEA records

Sep 22, 2013 News

– about to testify in Dutch trial

Media reports have surfaced that convicted Guyanese drug trafficker, Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan, was in telephone contact several times with Suriname President, Desi Bouterse, before his arrest and 2009 incarceration in the US.

Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan

A Dutch evening newspaper, NRC Handelsblad, yesterday reported that the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has records from a satellite phone belonging to Khan in which the mobile number of Bouterse came up. The calls took place between late 2005 and mid-June 2006.
Khan, 41, was jailed for a total of 40 years in October 2009 by a New York court after being arrested in Suriname in 2006, flown to Trinidad and handed over the federal agents of the US. However, he will only spend 15 as the sentences on the three charges will run concurrently.
President Bouterse, at the time of the alleged calls, was a Parliamentarian in that neighbouring, former Dutch territory.
In a U.S. diplomatic post in 2011 leaked by the WikiLeaks website, there was “social and operational links” between Bouterse and Khan. But there has never been any hard evidence presented.
Bouterse’s lawyer, Inez Weski, reportedly declined to comment on the links only denying that there is no link.
Citing intelligence sources, NRC Handelsblad said that Bouterse and Khan appeared to be part of a drug network, to which Piet Wortel, alleged to be one of Holland’s biggest drug traffickers, and Dino Bouterse, belonged. Dino Bouterse is the son of Bouterse who was arrested by Panamanian authorities late last month on drugs and weapons charges and handed over the US. He has appeared in court there.
The trial of Wortel scheduled to begin in December, is one of the largest Dutch drug cases in years, media reports have said. Piet Wortel is said to be a powerful figure who rubbed shoulders with Holland’s rich and owned media empire targeting sports broadcasting.
Khan, the report said yesterday, is expected to testify at the trial via a video link from his US jail.
Khan was given 15 years for conspiracy to import cocaine into the US; 15 years for witness tampering and 10 years on the 16-year-old illegal possession of firearm charge, which originated in the state of Vermont.
He had entered into a plea bargain deal with US prosecutors on March 2009.
Prior to his arrest in Suriname, Khan managed several businesses in Guyana, reportedly owning an island in the Essequibo River, a construction firm and controlling a forestry concession.
He was accused of running the infamous ‘phantom’ killing squad responsible for the deaths of several persons linked to criminal activities.

President Desi Bouterse

In 2006, after police issued an arrest warrant for him, Khan had publicly said in an advertisement that he was fighting criminals on behalf of the government. He later fled to Suriname where during a drug bust was arrested along with his bodyguards with 200 kilos of cocaine.
Regarding Bouterse, in 2000, he was sentenced in the Netherlands to 11 years imprisonment after being found guilty of trafficking 474 kilos of cocaine. Bouterse always denied being guilty and defended his conviction by claiming that the star witness in the case, Patrick van Loon, was bribed by the Dutch government.
According to Wikileaks cables released in 2011, Bouterse was active in the drug trade until 2006. Europol has issued an arrest warrant for him, but since he is President, he enjoys immunity.
Wikileaks cables from US embassies released in 2011 revealed that Bouterse was involved in drug-trafficking until 2006. Khan was believed to help Bouterse’s financial situation by giving him the means to supplement his income through narcotics trafficking.
According to the cables, Bouterse met Roger Khan several times in Nickerie at the house of MP Rashied Doekhi, who is prominent member of Bouterse’s political party. The cables also report that Bouterse and Khan were plotting to assassinate then minister of Justice Chan Santokhi and Attorney General Subhaas Punwasi.
Khan’s lawyer, Robert Simels, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for instructing a hit-man to kill the star witness in his client’s case. However, the hit-man turned out to be a government informant who secretly recorded the conversations with Simels.

9 thoughts on “Roger Khan was in phone contact with Suriname Pres. Bouterse in 2005/2006 – DEA records”

MrHFMetz . September 22, 2013 at 4:57 am

The one ended up in jail, the other one became PRESIDENT of the proud republic Suriname. ELECTED. See what elections do?!
vatvic September 22, 2013 at 7:12 am

The triangle of Ramsammy+Khan+Bouterse on one side and the duo of Bouterse’s son with guns + Buxton Villagers on the other… this equation is not making sense … but then if you add in one more factor i.e., cocaine, then it makes sense, the equation quickly balances…
So to surmise – it was always about Drugs for profit, never about “saving the nation.”
Ramsammy!! – it’s time to confess.
Emile_Mervin September 22, 2013 at 7:37 am

Khan said he saved the Jagdeo regime from collapsing at the hands of criminal elements, and despite Jagdeo saying he never knew or met Khan, many have since cited Khan as a ‘savior’,and ‘hero’. If Khan was in constant contact with Bouterse, who was sentenced in absentia in Holland on drug trafficking charges and whose son is now in US custody on drug trafficking charges, and if Khan did plot with Desi Bouterse to kill two of Suriname’s cabinet ministers, it could prove Khan was no savior or hero, but a drug trafficker given to murdering people to further his drug empire agenda. While Khan is getting ready to testify against a firmer drug associate from Suriname, will he ever be called on to testify against government officials of the Jagdeo era?
1. Kulie_Boy22 September 22, 2013 at 11:35 pm
  
  O boy, this is a good question however, who will call upon him to do so? not this present government. Because if they had care to do so they would have already. Even the Commissioner of police had the power on his own to do so by asking the US DEA and courts for the transcript of Mr. Khan’s sworn testimony and used it against him. However, they dare not do so because many of them names would appear somewhere in there. And it would be too explosive to deal with.. However such a step could be very useful in assisting the general public in sorting out the confusion and secrecy and shed some light on such projects like the Berbice Bridge, the Marriot Hotel, the Princess Hotel, the NICIL, AHI, Queens Atlantic and the list goes on and on. Just saying.
Ashley Singh September 22, 2013 at 9:10 am

Desi Bouterse the president of Suriname, a convicted drug dealer is permitted to speak at the United Nations. In what direction is the world heading?
1. Cotton_Candy September 24, 2013 at 12:27 am
  
  The wrong direction .Desi Bouterse is a wicked man and will have to suffer, I was so surprised that he became the president again.
Cockspur September 22, 2013 at 9:34 am

I wonder if the Americans and the Dutch have any phone records of Ramsammy and the GOG talking to Roger Khan and his associates.

Now that RK is testifying against these folks. I wonder who else he will testify against next?

These developments do not bode well for the ruling cabal. It could backfire significantly on the actors currently still in Guyana. Whatever you do however, do not press the panic button, Brummell seh suh.

It is only a matter of time before the truth around these matters come to the fore.
acklima akbar September 22, 2013 at 10:12 am

RK article deja vu. Real question is ‘Where is RK- in or out of jail and when will he be seen again in public?’
Patriot (cuffy jumbie) September 22, 2013 at 4:21 pm

Waiting for when Guyanese politicians will be exposed.