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We still have the ‘spy computer’ – Top Cop
Police Commissioner, Henry Greene, is adamant that the Police Force is in possession of the infamous ‘spy computer’ seized in 2002.
This is according to Greene, who in an invited comment yesterday said that upon reports that the US was in possession of the said piece of equipment, requested to have it retrieved from the Police Special Branch Unit in whose possession it has been since its recovery from the GDF who initially seized it.
The piece of equipment that the US Prosecutors presented to the Court
The Top Cop did say that the records from the GDF will have to be checked against that of the Police but insists that the one that they have is the one that they had since 2002.
In December 2002, Shaheed Roger Khan, Haroon Yahyah and Sean Belfield were arrested while they where traversing the East Coast of Demerara in a bulletproof vehicle.
At the time of their detention, an arms cache, a laptop computer, and an electronic device to track cellular phone calls were found.
The laptop computer also boasted a map of Guyana and the various cell sites operated at the time by the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company.
When they were arrested, one of the men had told police that they were hunting the infamous 2002 Mash Day escapees.
The authorities have always denied authorising the purchase of the equipment or facilitating the training of Khan to use it.
On Thursday, US Government produced in a New York Court, equipment that they said was the infamous spyware.
The US also produced the co-founder and director of the firm that manufactures the equipment. This man identified it as the one sold to the Guyana Government.
Myers who, 22 years ago, co-founded and has been with the UK company, Smith Myers ever since.
Myers, who flew in from the UK to testify, said under oath that the intercept equipment is only sold to governments and one set of equipment was sold by the company’s Florida sales office through the Spy Shop in Florida to the Guyana Government.
Myers identified the equipment as an intercept receiver and two laptops that were sold to the Guyana Government.
The Intercept receiver was identified by Myers as a CSM 7806 and two “Toughbook” Laptops, a small one and a larger one.
Myers told the court, both in direct and cross examination, that the only things missing from the equipment that was sold to Guyana were a USB cable and a small rubber type antenna.
Both of the items were regular items that could be picked up at any electronic store. Myers in his testimony said that both laptops were working and the intercept receiver had a minor power supply problem.
Once again, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy emerged as the purchaser of the equipment.
Defence attorney, Gerald Shargel, stated that the evidence shows Dr. Leslie Ramsammy authorised the purchase on behalf of the Government of Guyana.
Smith Myers being a UK company can be asked by the Guyana Government or a court in Guyana to produce the now “contentious evidence” of the authorisation documentation that the Florida Office received to allow it to be sold to Guyana.
In court, Myers, the Co-Director of Smith Myers stated that an independent contractor, a man named Carl Chapman, was dispatched to Guyana to train those who had to use the intercept receiver.
Although Police Commissioner Greene controls the Immigration Department, no records have ever been produced that Mr. Chapman traveled to the country from the United Kingdom or elsewhere at the times listed by the defense.
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