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Sattaur flip flops on authenticity of e-mail to Jagdeo, Nandlall
…conspiracy against KNews require aggressive condemnation – Nagamootoo
Recent revelations by the Commissioner General, of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Khurshid Sattaur, have
Khurshid Sattaur
heightened calls for him to resign immediately.
Alliance for Change (AFC) Vice Chairman, Moses Nagamootoo, recently called the disclosure of tax information to a private citizen the worst crime committed in modern Guyana.
This publication recently published the contents of an e-mail sent to former President, Bharrat Jagdeo, from Sattaur. In the mail Sattaur provided confidential tax information on a number of local daily newspapers.
Another mail sent to Attorney General, Anil Nandlall, was also published. In it the two discussed their plot to silence the Kaieteur News and jail its Publisher, Glenn Lall.
Several charges have since been filed against Lall, his wife Bhena and two family friends over what the tax boss calls collusion to evade taxes as well as false declarations.
But Sattaur’s statements over the past week have been contradictory at best. Sattaur initially told this publication he will not comment on the emails. Then in other sections of the media he claimed that the mails published were all fabrications.
But he changed his tune within hours and he is now calling on police to investigate how Kaieteur News came to be in possession of the mails, which he described as confidential.
According to an article published elsewhere, Sattaur is reported as saying that his staffers have been compromised and he points to what he has called the recent disclosures of confidential information.
The Commissioner General is also quoted as saying that Lall was able to obtain confidential information on Sataur’s overseas
Bharrat Jagdeo
travel plans, the purpose of his visit overseas and information on an initial analysis of the income of media houses to inform the need for an audit.
Sattaur is also quoted as saying that subsequent to the ‘unlawful disclosures of information, obtained by illegal and illicit means’, he has since taken numerous steps to buttress its Information Technology Security Infrastructure, internal access to, and transmission of sensitive taxpayer information, in addition to launching an intensive investigation into the source of these leaks and other illegal and illicit activities.
Nagamootoo was adamant that Sattaur has not denied that the emails linking him to a plot to destroy Kaieteur News are fakes.
He has raised an issue that should be of concern to the citizens, that is, whether his confidential communication has been hacked.
“If he is worried by this, as he should be, why does he feel that leaking confidential information of taxpayers to Bharrat Jagdeo or any other private citizens not authorised to receive such information, should be excused? The conspiracy against KN requires aggressive exposure and condemnation!”
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