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‘Chiney’ surrenders to police
Popular Crabwood Creek businessman, Hareshnarine Sugrim, called ‘Chiney’ turned himself in to police in Berbice yesterday.
His surrender came in the wake of a wanted bulletin for his arrest last week in connection with a causing death by dangerous driving probe.
Police said that Sugrim was wanted for questioning in connection with the death of Rajkumar Basdeo of Line Path Skeldon, which occurred on the Number 78 Village Public Road, Corentyne on January 2.
The businessman turned up at the Central Police Station, New Amsterdam, in the company of his attorneys Mursalene Bacchus and Ramesh Rajkumar.
Haresnarine Sugrim called ‘Chiney’
Kaieteur News understands that Sugrim presented police with a statement denying that he was involved in the accident.
There are reports that Sugrim was the driver of the vehicle that struck down Basdeo despite another man, Aleem Mohamed called ‘Knights’, claiming responsibility for the accident.
Police had received eyewitnesses’ accounts that Mohamed was not the driver of the vehicle at the time of the crash.
The eyewitnesses said that the driver of the vehicle, who appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, fled the scene in another vehicle.
Meanwhile, this newspaper learnt that immediately after presenting himself to the police, Sugrim was initially placed into the lock-ups at the Central Police Station.
He was subsequently escorted to the Springlands Police Station from where he was taken to the scene of the accident.
He was shown the vehicle involved and reportedly admitted to being the owner.
According to a source, the popular businessman claimed that he had loaned it to Mohamed on the night of the accident.
Sugrim was later placed in the lock-ups at Springlands where he remained up to late last night.
The police are now seeking the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions on the way forward.
And Mohamed, who is currently on $200,000 bail, could face charges for giving false information if investigators confirm that he was not the driver of the vehicle at the time of the accident.
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