AG hints at possible fraud by GCB Executive

Mar 03, 2012 Sports

Attorney General and the Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, issued a statement, yesterday, highlighting what he said indicates a case of fraud by way of the transfer of property from the Guyana Cricket Board to a private company set up by the members of the GCB Executive.
Below is the full text of that statement:
In the ongoing legal proceedings which have been filed by the Attorney General against thirteen (13) persons who purport to be officers of the Guyana Cricket Board, the Attorney-at-Law for the Defendants today, filed an Affidavit in Answer to those proceedings.
This Affidavit was sworn by Anand Sanasie in which he deposes under oath, for the first time, that on the 29th of August, 2011, that is, after the Honourable Chief Justice Chang had pronounced, inter alia, that the Guyana Cricket Board has no legal persona, is a legal non-entity and the election of officers to that body cannot be recognized by the Court, a Resolution was passed by the Executive Committee of the Guyana Cricket Board, comprising of the said thirteen (13) persons, to transfer all the assets of the Guyana Cricket Board over to a private limited liability company bearing the name D.E.B. Essential Organization Inc.
The said resolution was attached to the Court documents. Also attached, were the Certificate of Incorporation of this limited liability company and the incorporating documents, which disclosed the following:
(i) Anand Sanasie and Fizul Bacchus are the incorporators of this company; and
(ii) Anand Sanasie is the company secretary;
(iii) Anand Sanasie is a director of the company;
(iv) Fizul Bacchus is a director of the company.
On the said 29th day of August, 2011, the following persons were also appointed directors:
(i) Ramsey Ali,
(ii) Alfred Mentore,
(iii) Dru Bahadur,
(iv) Anand Kalludeen,
(v) Colin Europe,
(vi) Troy Mendonza,
(vii) Terrence Holder,
(viii) Rayon Griffith,
(ix) Nazimul Drepaul,
(x) Raj Singh,
(xi) Sheikh Ahmad.
By a Deed of Transfer, executed by Chetram Singh and Lionel Jaikarran, as trustees of the Guyana Cricket Board, transferred to D.E.B. Essential Organization Inc., all assets and properties of the Guyana Cricket Board and further authorized D.E.B. Essential Organization Inc. to take the necessary legal steps to regularize ownership of the said properties.
These properties include:
(i) all office and other furniture,
(ii) cricket gears
(iii) the LBI Hostel and Practice Facility,
(iv) Anna Regina Hostel,
(v) the GNIC Practice Facility,
(vi) GCB office,
(vii) one minibus,
(viii) the media centre at Bourda,
(ix) Guyana Bank of Trade and Industry Account No. 1084826,
(x) Demerara Bank Account No. 400-7217,
(xi) Bank of Nova Scotia Account Nos. 6717 and 7312,
(xii) Republic Bank Account No. 650-556-4,
(xiii) New Building Society Account No. C1873.
In short, all properties which were once owned by the Guyana Cricket Board are now owned by a private limited company which is owned and controlled by the above-mentioned persons.
This state of affairs must, at a minimum, be of the greatest concern to the Guyanese public and the entire Caribbean region. It is difficult to predict how the West Indies Cricket Board would react. It must be emphasized that the aforesaid mentioned persons, as a grouping, have filed no less than five legal proceedings in which they have sworn a number of Affidavits under oath never disclosing to the Court anything in respect of the aforementioned matters. Indeed, these Affidavits contain, what appears to be numerous false assertions, that these very properties which are aforementioned are owned by the Guyana Cricket Board. These proceedings were filed by these persons in their purported capacity as officers of the Guyana Cricket Board. Numerous public statements have been made by these persons over the last six months positively saying that the Government and the Minister of Sport are interfering with the assets of the Guyana Cricket Board. Well, since August, 2011, these assets have been owned by a private company which is owned by these very persons.
These documents, including the several affidavits, will be transmitted to the Police.

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