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On funeral day… GRA seizes two ‘illegal’ vehicles from Minister Fox’s home

Dec 18, 2009 News

Two vehicles, suspected to be brought into Guyana illegally, were seized Wednesday from the Campbellville home of former Minister, Dr Desrey Fox. At the time of the seizure her body was being cremated.
The two vehicles, a silver Toyota Hilux and a white Chevrolet Corsa, were said to have been brought from Brazil to Georgetown via the Georgetown/Lethem road.
A well-placed source close to the investigation, disclosed that one of the vehicles, the Chevrolet, was brought to the city using the number plates of a vehicle belonging to the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs.
Several officers of the enforcement arm of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) along with police reportedly descended on the late Minister’s home at Echilibar Villas, Campbellville, for the seizures.
Dr Fox, Minister within the Ministry of Education, died from trauma and other complications last week after a vehicular accident.
Terrence Fox, a son of the minister, yesterday confirming the seizure, explained that a minibus driver, Giuliano D’Aguiar, who died in a horrific smash-up on the road to Lethem earlier this month, left the Toyota Hilux at the home over a month ago.
Regarding the Chevrolet, Fox said it was brought to the city by persons who came for the funeral and who promised to return for it but up to the time of the seizure had not done so. He said that they were not his and as far as he was concerned the GRA could keep them.
However, another picture is emerging. According to the source close to the investigation, the seizures by GRA on Thursday were prompted after GRA officials discovered that the Chevrolet car bore number plates that belonged to a pickup of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs.
Kaieteur News understands that on Monday two men, who introduced themselves as members of the drug enforcement unit (name given) and who were stationed at Lethem, told GRA officials along the Lethem road that they were escorting the car to Georgetown.
However, officials became suspicious after they saw the back number plate of the Chevrolet was “too clean”.
Reports were made to the Georgetown office where an investigation was launched.
Yesterday, Commissioner-General of the GRA Khurshid Sattaur, said that his men had been tracking the vehicles. The investigators found that the vehicles had Guyana plates but had not been registered with the Guyana Revenue Authority.
Yesterday, the vehicles were parked at the GRA’s Auction Site, Good Hope, East Coast Demerara.
The news of the seizures came at a time when GRA says that it is battling a huge problem of illegal vehicles in the country.
Earlier this week, the body announced that it has discovered numerous cases of false documents across the country being used to register vehicles.
And a great number of these vehicles came from as close as Suriname and Brazil and were left in Guyana illegally.
On Monday, Commissioner-General Sattaur, said that from estimation, there could be as many as 500 illegally registered vehicles in the country.
The discovery came as the tax regulatory body continues an operation to automate its system of the sale and issuance of motor vehicle licences.

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