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$1.6M vanishes from vehicle in GRA parking lot
Auto dealer, Nigel Ramah, 33, of 18 Chateau Margot, East Coast Demerara, is in shock. About 10:30 hours, yesterday, he lost a black shoulder bag containing $1.6 million, five minutes after leaving it stashed 
in his Ford F-150 vehicle.
At the time the vehicle was parked in the Guyana Revenue Authority’s (GRA) parking lot on Camp Street.
Kaieteur News understands that Ramah had just withdrawn the money from a city bank before heading to GRA to pay duty on a vehicle. He went up to the GRA building leaving the money in the vehicle. It is unclear why he left the money behind instead of taking it in to transact his business.
After some five minutes of being in the building, Ramah returned only to be greeted with a broken left side door lock and his ‘bag of money’ missing.
Yesterday when a Kaieteur News reporter visited the scene, the obviously baffled Ramah was surrounded by GRA workers as they tried to make sense of what had happened. He was advised to make a report to the police, which he did.
Some workers on spot speculated that Ramah never had the money and “is just trying to set people up.” One person said that he was known to be going through some financial crisis and this might be the cause for him claiming such a loss.
They also accused him of “bullying” the guard to park in the parking lot after claiming he was a staff member. The parking lot is just for GRA staff. It is unclear why the security guard did not raise an alarm after being “bullied” by Ramah.
Ramah in his defense denied those claims. He said that he never told the guard he was a staff member. He was also flabbergasted by the statements made about him not being in possession of the money. “I made the transaction at the Camp Street Republic Bank, and the bank can verify that with them.”
Ramah was forced to drive his violated vehicle to the police station as GRA senior staff advised that it was illegal for the vehicle to even be in the parking lot in the first place.
The shaken auto dealer is adamant that the security guard and other workers at the parking lot know about how his money disappeared. Before leaving the parking lot Ramah was heard demanding that every vehicle be checked for his “bag of money”, but these demands were ignored as GRA staff rushed him out the lot. Investigations are continuing.
Meanwhile $6M in foreign liquor has been reported to be missing from the GRA warehouse facility in Eccles, East Bank Demerara. A private security guard service has been implicated after surveillance footage was reviewed. Commissioner General of the GRA, Khurshid Sattaur, has assured that the agency will spare no effort bringing perpetrators to justice.
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