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Fidelity Investments boss, employees ‘receive death threats’
… statements against Customs Officers cited
Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Investments, Dr Joshua Safeek says that he along with several of his employees is in receipt of death threats.
According to the CEO, the threats have come over the last few weeks and are in relation to statements that he gave to the police in relation to corruption among Customs and Excise Officers. Safeek noted that one such threatening call stated that if he were to give any more statements he would be found dead.
“Don’t be surprised to hear that my body is discovered floating somewhere in the coming weeks.”
He also announced, yesterday, that following a court appearance on April 7, 2008, he was approached by a young man who proposed to get the charges against him dropped if he would withdraw his statement given to the police regarding corruption at Customs.
The offer was refused.
The announcement of the threats was made yesterday when Safeek and his attorneys held a press briefing to clear the air on recent charges laid against the company.
Safeek at that time said that he was of the opinion that he was being harassed by the Guyana Revenue Authority, more specifically, the man at the helm of the body, Khurshid Sattaur.
He posited that the harassment was so that he would not tell police the truth about the depth of the corruption that exists at the entity which did not occur at low level officers but in the upper hierarchy.
Dr Safeek’s latest brush with the law stems from the importation of three containers of Polar Beer. GRA is insisting that he knowingly proffered a falsified document.
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