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GCB lawyers respond to AG’s fraud allegations

Mar 04, 2012 Sports

 

 

LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES for the people against whom Attorney General Anil Nandlall secured an injunction, have responded to allegations contained in another statement by the Attorney General.
The AG had contended malfeasance by the Guyana Cricket Board.
We publish in full the response by the GCB attorneys:
Our Clients, Chetram Singh, Lionel Jaikarran, Ramsey Ali, Alfred Mentore, Anand Sanasie, Fizul Bacchus, Dru Bahadur, Anand Kalladeen, Colin Europe, Rayon Griffith, Nazimul Drepaul, who together form the Executive and trustees of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) would like to make clear in their personal capacities to the general public that the allegations made by the Attorney-General that private individuals own the GCB or that all property once owned by the GCB is now owned or hijacked by a private limited company which is owned by and controlled by certain executive of the GCB or that it was incorporated in secret is wholly false as: (a) the incorporation was done at the Supreme Court Registry (b) all the executive members of the GCB are directors of the incorporated company (c) the Certificate of incorporation was issued by the Registrar of Companies and to date shares in the said Company have been issued to the Essequibo Cricket Board and the Demerara Board.
The GCB had further been advised by its Counsel that in light of the Chief Justice’s ruling that the GCB was unincorporated that the State may move to take over and control all its assets and to prevent such an occurrence the GCB should incorporate a Company until such time as there is legislation and or proper direction from the State and or the Legislature.
That forecast has proven to be a hundred per cent accurate in that the latest legal maneuver by the Attorney-General has been to file an action in which among other Orders sought is that the assets of the GCB should become the property of the State as the GCB was an unincorporated body and as such cannot own any property”.
The GCB as a direct result of the advice and in consultation with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and on the advice of legal counsel, resolved to incorporate a company, namely DEB Essential Organization Inc., (DEB) for the purpose of holding its assets and being its commercial arm. This was done in accordance with the Chief Justice’s ruling and WICB directives.
The GCB as an unincorporated association still exists and the DEB is only an incorporated commercial arm of the GCB. The GCB has always made mention in the affidavits it has filed in ongoing Court matters as to the ongoing efforts to bring the GCB under a statutory regime.
The GCB was prevented from registering any name containing the phrase “Guyana Cricket Board Inc.”  Or “GCB Inc.” due to Government intervention; the incorporation of a company was necessary to save the assets of the GCB from the Government’s actions which have been escalating to alarming levels.
The pressures placed upon the Executive of the GCB are extremely oppressive and was such that Ramsey Ali resigned on Monday 27th February 2012 as President of the GCB.
Mr. Ali has also resigned as a director of DEB as well. The extreme pressures on the Executives continue with threats being made daily in the media and in private by the officials and organs of State.
The trustees of the GCB, namely Messrs. Lionel Jaikarran and Chetram Singh, would like to make it clear that at all times they acted on the express instructions of the Executive of the GCB as they are duty-bound to do in the discharge of their functions.
They stand by all they have done thus far, which they have been advised is entirely legal. However, they wish to make clear that they will do no new act in their capacity as trustees and have made this clear to the GCB.
Further, they wish to advise that when permissible by law they intend to discontinue acting as trustees of the GCB.
This public statement is issued by Messrs. K. Juman-Yassin, Roysdale Forde and Sanjeev Datadin; the Attorneys-at-Law of the Trustees and Executive Members of the GCB.

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