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GCCI executive calls for full investigation of shared tax information
…says if authenticated is a serious breach of the rule of law
Former President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Clinton Urling is calling for an
Khurshid Sattaur
investigation into the recent purported sharing of tax information by Guyana Revenue Authority head, Khurshid Sattaur, with former President Bharrat Jagdeo.
According to Urling, if the pieces of mail are authentic then there was a breach of the rule of law.
Urling told this newspaper that his statement is not made on behalf of the GCCI but that body is expected to make a public statement shortly.
According to Urling, there needs to be a full investigation to determine first of all, if the emails are authentic.
Neither Sattaur nor Attorney General Anil Nandlall has refuted the authenticity of the email.
Sattaur is on record asking for the police to investigate how Kaieteur News managed to access email inside of the GRA.
Sattaur, during an interview with this newspaper, denied sending any email to former President, Bharrat Jagdeo or Attorney General Anil Nandlall. But in the next breath he acknowledged that the mail are authentic and he blames “corrupt people” within the GRA for leaking information to Kaieteur News.
This publication on Sunday published a redacted email sent from Sattaur to Jagdeo, where he divulged the tax information of several privately-owned media houses.
In another email, this time to Attorney General Anil Nandlall, Sattaur informed that he had provided the former President with “information which I would expect he treats with the utmost confidentiality”.
According to the email, Sattaur informs Nandlall that “since we are in this thing together, I see no harm in sharing this with you. However, further to the assurances you have given me that the Government will be pursuing the newspaper for libel and other offences of a criminal nature, I will await the determination of such action before I provide you with the details on Kaieteur News.”
In another email sent to the Attorney General, Sattaur claims that it is of “grave concern to me that the owner of Kaieteur News is engaged in a psychological game of tit for tat as it relates to targeting me every time something very obnoxious bordering onto illegality get leaked on him or that affects his credibility.”
According to Sattaur, in the email, “As the Attorney General of this great land of ours the minimum I would expect from you is legal protection from the courts invoking the laws that protects me against such attacks using his media house, as this individual knows no limits as to what he can put someone through once he targets them.”
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