Execution attempt on Auto Spares Dealer… Investigations appear to be at a standstill

Mar 04, 2014 News

More than two weeks after Auto Spares Dealer, Deokaran Sanasie survived an execution attempt; the police are yet to charge someone.
The proprietor of Ram’s Auto Spares was taking a “drink” at Light and Fourth Streets Alberttown on February 14, last when he was shot three times about the body by two gunmen on a motorcycle.

Deokaran Sanasie in the middle along with his wife, Patricia and her brother, Vishnu Persaud.

Two days after the shooting, the businessman’s wife, Patricia Sanasie and her brother, Vishnu Persaud were taken into police custody.
This was after investigators were provided with a recorded conversation by Sanasie in which a relative of the alleged plotters implicated his wife and her brother in the plan to kill him.
The duo was released after 72 hours since it was deemed that a “recorded conversation” is not enough evidence to put anyone behind bars.
To date, investigators have reportedly worked on a number of leads but none of them has been able to definitively point to who was responsible for the execution attempt on the businessman.
Yesterday, during a brief telephone interview with the businessman, all he could have said was “investigations ongoing.” However, a senior police rank said that “this might be a tight one to solve.”
Sanasie had told Kaieteur News that he was informed that hit-men received $6M to kill him. He also said that it wasn’t difficult for him to “pin-point” his wife as the person who would want to see him dead.
The businessman said that for the past several years, he and the woman were experiencing problems with their relationship.
“We were not living nice. Things from the house started to vanish and she always lying to me. My jewellery disappeared and a diamond bracelet that I paid US$7000 for, vanished. I made a report and the police said that my (partner) can do anything because we are in a relationship.”
Sanasie also said that he recently sold a property for US$100,000 and was waiting to collect the money.
He believed that the woman, who knew about the transaction, wanted to “bump him off” in order to get her hands on the cash.
However, one day after Patricia Sanasie and her brother were released, she held a press conference at her Lot 129 Atlantic Gardens, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home in which she claimed that her husband needs to see a psychiatrist.
“My husband is lying. He needs to see a psychiatrist. I think he is messed up,” Patricia Sanasie had told this newspaper.