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City businessman arrested in connection with cocaine in lumber bust

Mar 26, 2013 News

 

 

Customs Anti -narcotics Unit (CANU) ranks are hoping that they have got the break that they were looking for as a popular businessman, believed to have major shares in the country’s second largest drug bust was arrested yesterday morning.
Kaieteur News was told that around 09:00hours, a named city businessman, the owner of a pawn shop and several boutiques was arrested after his name came up during investigations into the 314 kilograms (692 pounds) of cocaine found in logs at a sawmill located at the Soesdyke/Linden Highway last month.
Kaieteur News was told that the suspect was deported from the United States several years ago and had been residing in Guyana ever since.
They said that they have reason to believe that the businessman may be the “kingpin”.
In the meantime, other persons of interest are still reporting to the anti-drug squad. Three individuals, among them a Dutch national, Edgar Boesenach, of Coralita Avenue, Bel Air; and a Guyanese, Raymond Ghani, the local manager at the Soesdyke sawmill were detained.
A second Guyanese man was detained, while a forklift operator, who allegedly packed the drug filled logs which were found in the container destined for the Netherlands, was rearrested when another suspect implicated him.
CANU sources had said that the forklift operator appeared to have fair knowledge about the operation but told investigators less than he actually knew.
The Dutch national and the Guyanese manager were arrested on the same day that CANU unearthed 314 kilograms of cocaine in hollowed-out timber which was due to be shipped to Europe.
Sources said that investigators had been eyeing the timber company implicated in the bust for some time, since there were irregularities in the way they function.
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) also said that CANU had suspicions about the scanning anomalies that were discovered and thus opted to drill one of the logs.
They said the Guyana Forestry Commission had already given the containers which were on the wharf some clearance to be shipped, but the GRA insisted that the lumber be checked again.
The GFC said that it too noticed irregularities about the Soesdyke-based timber company. Two weeks prior to the drug bust, the sawmill had been closed down, because the company was allegedly engaged in four illegal shipments.

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