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Executed Mon Repos exporter owed $10M
– businessmen still is custody
Detectives have received reports that executed fish exporter, Rajendra Sonilall, owed a business associate $10M, and they are trying to ascertain if the debt is linked to his murder.
Police sources said that they were informed that Sonilall had purchased a property from the associate but had not yet paid the man.
Rajendra Sonilall
An official disclosed that the two East Coast Demerara businessmen who were arrested on Saturday are still in custody.
Kaieteur News understands that one of the detained men is a Montrose, East Coast Demerara resident while the other is from Better Hope.
According to a source, the Montrose businessman was charged in connection with a recent cocaine in pepper-sauce racket.
The slain man’s family members have alleged that the other businessman owed Sonilall $15M, and that Sonilall had complained to the police that the business associate was refusing to honour the debt.
Two other associates reportedly owe Sonilall $9M and $5M respectively.
Forty-three-year-old Sonilall, called ‘Moti’, of Lot 73 Second Street Mon Repos was shot in the chest and the back of his head while sitting on a bench outside his business place.
According to an eyewitness, the gunman was wearing a ‘toque’ and arrived and fled on foot after shooting Sonilall.
Sonilall succumbed minutes after arriving at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
Two .32 shells were recovered at the scene.
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