Latest update April 1st, 2025 5:37 PM
NIS manager charged for demanding money with menace
The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) Port Mourant Branch Manager, Miguel Anthony, of Vergenoegen, East Bank
Charged: Miguel Anthony
Essequibo, and Nigg, Corentyne, Berbice, who was arrested on Tuesday afternoon following a sting operation by the police in ‘B’ division, has been charged for demanding money with menace .
The 44-year-old man appeared yesterday before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs Marcus at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on the charge of demanding money with menace. He pleaded not guilty and was placed on $75,000 bail.
According to Prosecutor Sergeant Godfrey Playter, Anthony is accused of, between September 8 and 9, 2014, at Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice, demanding the sum of $350,000 from Peter Lewis, a businessman.
Anthony, a married father of five, was initially not required to enter a plea, however Prosecutor Playter asked that the charge be disposed of summarily, which allowed the defendant the opportunity to plead.
Anthony was represented by Attorney-at-law Horacio Edmond. The attorney in his plea for bail stated that his client is not a flight risk. He is married, has five children, a permanent address, and has been working with the National Insurance Scheme for the past 20 years.
The prosecution had no objection to bail.
The matter has been transferred to the Whim Magistrate Court and has been set for continuation on October 22.
It was alleged that the manager had demanded that Lewis pay him the sum of money to help him get his compliance urgently. The businessman was bidding for a contract and needed his compliance to be sorted out urgently.
The manager was then allegedly nabbed in a police sting operation.
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