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CLICO car drives wedge between mother, son

Apr 29, 2009 News

A Mitsubishi Lancer worth some $2.7M, which was won as the 2006 GuyExpo’s gate prize by Ravindranauth Puran, has landed both him and his mother, Savitri Puran, in the High Court.
This court action has driven a wedge between the two. The car, which was won by the Ravindranauth, is now registered to his mother who is attempting to sell the vehicle, much to the annoyance of the young man.
The car was put up as a prize by Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) Guyana.
A photograph of the handing over ceremony was printed in the November 2006 edition of the Guyana Chronicle.
According to a court document filed by the young man, he is the person entitled to the legal ownership of the vehicle and is seeking to have the car signed over to him.
In the meantime, he is seeking a restraining order preventing his mother from selling the car until a determination of the matter in the High Court.
The matter was previously reported to the police but given that the woman had documents showing that the car was registered to her, the police returned the vehicle to the mother.
Ravindranauth, in a sworn ex-parte affidavit for an interim injunction, states that in October 2006 he bought a ticket to go to the 2006 GuyExpo, which was being held at the Sophia Exhibition Site.
He noted that the Ministry of Tourism in partnership with CLICO (Guyana) held a competition for a gate prize and that the ticket which he purchased bore the winning number of the car.
As a result of his being announced the winner he was required to attend a handing over ceremony, which was held at the company’s headquarters on Camp Street. His mother and his uncle were on hand to witness the ceremony.
He noted that when he collected the keys of the car he requested of Sharon Melville, the Finance Director of the company, the documents relating to the car. He said that he was told that he would be in receipt of such in a matter of a few days and he was allowed to drive home the car using a trade plate.
Ravindranauth added that he drove the car home, parked it, covered it and went back to work.
He said that the car remained parked there for some three weeks whilst he waited on a word from CLICO (Guyana) but none was forthcoming.
Whilst awaiting word he decided to check on the car one day and realized that there was a number plate on the car meaning that it had been registered.
This, according to Ravindranauth Puran, was done without his knowledge or consent.
He pointed out also that he immediately attempted to make contact with Melville to no avail and decided that the best thing to date at the time was to store the car elsewhere.
He said that his mother subsequently asked about the car. He later realized that she was the person who had registered the car. She then demanded it from him.
She apparently told him that CLICO (Guyana) gave her the car.
The woman has since been summoned to appear in court as it relates to the car.
Among the particulars of the fraud committed is the fact that she knew that her son was the winner of the car and that she misrepresented herself to CLICO as the owner of the winning ticket.

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