Ex- GPL employees make restitution following extortion article

Jan 15, 2016 News

Following the publication of an article titled ‘Hunt on for ex-GPL employees extorting $$M from customers’, an Attorney has telephoned Kaieteur News to inform that some of the former GPL employees have opted to make restitution of the cash collected from customers.
Kaieteur News takes this opportunity to encourage anyone who may have recognised the published photographs of former GPL employees as persons who unlawfully collected cash or had their meters removed, to contact our editorial department.
GPL’s Loss Reduction Unit can be contacted on the following numbers: -2255251, 2310507, 6001586 or 6037507.
The loss reduction arm of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. two days ago sounded warning to the public that they should not be fooled into handing over monies to persons seeking same, unless they are at the office of the many commercial departments.
Those departments are situated at Grove, East Bank, Vreed-en-Hoop, Mon Repos, Main Street and on Middle Street in the city or any other authorized collecting entities of GPL.
This is in light of a scam being perpetuated by former employees of GPL’s metering and loss reduction departments.
Recently several persons visited the company’s office with footage of persons operating under the pretext of being GPL employees. That group has been demanding and extorting payments from unsuspecting consumers.
Speaking to Kaieteur News, investigators say that “we have compiled a list of a group of seven persons who have formed an illegal parallel GPL crew and have been targeting customers and collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash illegally.”
A former technician was arrested on January 11.
The team has been operating in Georgetown, East Bank, East Coast and West Demerara, in minibuses BEE 1097 and PFF 6304, as well as other vehicles.
This publication understands that over a period the group collected monetary sums of $300,000 from a couple on the East Coast Demerara, $190,000 from a Kitty resident after demanding as much as $1 million. In Diamond, a businesswoman fell prey to the gang which collected $300,000.
As recent as Monday last they visited a businessman in Herstelling and collected $200,000 and were asked to return for $100,000. It was upon return that the technician was arrested while his two accomplices fled.
After the arrest, several persons came forward and identified the man as having collected large sums of cash from them. He remains in custody and will soon be charged for obtaining monies by false pretence with intent to defraud.
The group has also been bold enough to remove a customer’s meter in Dennis Street, Sophia, and another customer on the East Bank.
GPL’s investigating team is also determining if there is an insider that has been providing information to the illegal team resulting in them targeting specific and unsuspecting customers.

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