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Ranks extorted money from Surinamese courier

Mar 16, 2011 News


– senior police official

Investigations into the movement of a large quantity of US currency through the Corentyne by a Surinamese national have taken a new twist, with local police probing some of their own for allegedly demanding cash to let the subject go.
A senior police official said that contrary to reports carried in this newspaper, the Surinamese was in possession of US$50, 000 and not US$250,000. The official stated that the money was successfully traced to a local cambio which had transacted legitimate business.
According to the official, when the money was unearthed, the ranks demanded US$5000 each from the Surinamese to forego arrest. This, he said, led to the man making a telephone call to the cambio dealers who had given him the money.
When senior police officials learnt of this development, they became angry and immediately instructed the ranks to release the Surinamese along with the cash. The instruction to release the man was carried out, but not before the ranks had extorted US$1500 from the subject.
The official said that it was not a case of the police covering up an illegality by instructing that the man be released as was originally conveyed.
Last Monday this newspaper carried an article in which it was stated that a Surinamese national who was held at a police roadblock with a large quantity of United States currency stashed among his clothes was allowed to go free after he made a telephone call.
The article had stated that Roaul Winter of 74 Arnold Gulem Nickeri, Suriname, was travelling in a car on the 18th February around 23:15 hrs, when he was stopped at a roadblock in the vicinity of the Albion Police Station.
Ranks searched his baggage and unearthed a substantial amount of US currency.
When questioned, the man would not say where he got the money from, and what he was going to do with it.  Winter, along with the driver was taken to the station where he was fingerprinted and photographed.
However, he reportedly requested and made one phone call which he said was to a friend.  Shortly after, the ranks were instructed to release Winter and give him back all his money.
The man and his driver then left the station for the Upper Corentyne, where they crossed the Suriname River using the backtrack route, Monday’s article had stated.
This newspaper understands that the ranks involved are expected to be placed on an identification parade to be identified by the Surinamese with a view to prosecuting them.

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