Guyana to seek US help for info on Roger Khan's operations here

Guyana to seek US help for info on Roger Khan’s operations here

May 17, 2008 News

Local police may be writing the United States and its embassy here to find out about alleged murder hits ordered by Shaheed Roger Khan, a Guyanese businessman who is implicated in drug trafficking in the US.
According to US court documents, Khan may have ordered almost 200 murders in Guyana.

During a media conference at his office yesterday, President Bharrat Jagdeo stressed that if there is any credence to the claims, it will mean that several unsolved cases will be resolved.

Expressing the hope that the US will assist Guyana in getting to the bottom of allegations, he revealed that the Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene, had confirmed that the information about the alleged 200 killings had not been passed by the US to Guyana as yet.

The Commissioner, if he has not done so yet, should be writing the US authorities to have the necessary information so that investigations could be launched here and the cases pursued to the end.
Last week, the President emphasised that while Khan was not in Guyana’s jurisdiction, we “…have an obligation that if presented with any information by the US Government about Roger Khan’s involvement in any criminal act that would be pursued by our law enforcement agency…That is my position.”
To date, Khan has been fingered in the US court as having ordered at least two murders, namely the execution of Donald Allison, a boxing coach of Agricola, and Devenand Persaud.

This newspaper reported last week that the Prosecution had filed a motion in the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, seeking to admit at trial, evidence of Khan’s retaliation against businessman and boutique owner, Devenand Persaud. The retaliation included threats to Persaud and his family, seizing Persaud’s car, and ultimately ordering Persaud’s murder and the murder of boxing coach Donald Allison.

The U.S. Government intends to establish that Persaud was charged with smuggling and conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and ultimately cooperated with U.S. law enforcement.