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Police hunt Trinidadian con artist

Jul 29, 2014 News

…man sells rented cars
Local police are hot on the trail of a Trinidadian confidence trickster who has so far managed to illegally sell several vehicles after renting them from unsuspecting local car rental establishments on East and West Coast Demerara.
The police had detained the Trinidadian’s accomplice, Steven Baboolall. However, the detainee was released on $20,000 bail while investigators have set up a plan to capture the mastermind, whose name was given as Daniel Ali.
Police said that Ali was working with a list of local accomplices. The locals were holding assets for him, even opening bank accounts for him, while being well aware of his illegal practices.
The scheme was busted last week when several car rental dealers turned up at the Vigilance and Leonora Police Stations with reports that Ali, who had rented several cars from them over a period of time, had failed to return the vehicles and had in fact sold the vehicles to other persons.
When police tried to contact Ali, he had already gone into hiding.
On Friday last, minutes after Baboolall was released from the Parika Police Station lock-ups, detectives were closing in on the main suspect who was desperate to reunite with his accomplice.
According to a source, the police were informed about their location but no one showed up to make the arrest.
Also on Friday, another car rental operative turned up at the Vigilance Police Station to report that Ali had rented his car and had not returned it by the stipulated date.
The conman and his accomplice were subsequently spotted at a guest house at Eccles, East Bank Demerara by an informant who was secretly investigating them.
But by the time ranks arrived at the location, the two men had suddenly checked out of the guest house although they had paid for several more days.
Earlier this year both Ali and Baboolall caught the public’s eye when they moved into an apartment at Roraima Housing Scheme, West Coast Demerara, where they were observed spending lavishly and driving several expensive cars.
Queries of curious neighbours were met with explanations that the men had come from Trinidad, were very wealthy and were in Guyana to invest in a catering business.
They were at that time overheard making arrangements for sale of cars with a former manager of a popular hotel on West Coast Demerara.
But a few weeks later Ali informed that he and Baboolall were now in the business of lending money to villagers in Uitvulgt and would take interest on the sums loaned.
He told an informant that a resident from the village had borrowed $1.5M from them and had left two cars with them until the sum would have been repaid.
Up to this point no one knew what Ali’s real “business” was.
Last Wednesday police detained Baboolall who produced documents to show that he had entered into a contract that secured the loaning arrangement. Such claims turned out to be false as it was later discovered that the cars were actually stolen from a car rental agency.
There are reports that the latest car dealer who was conned woke up early Sunday morning to find his car parked in front of his premises and the ignition keys thrown into his front yard.
Ali on the other hand has managed to elude the police and may be attempting to leave Guyana for Suriname using the ‘back track’ route.

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