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With oil money, corruption will flow
Dear Editor,
Since it was discovered in July 2015 that the then GPL DCEO and a Director had allegedly signed for the transfer of sums from the Petro Caribe fund to their personal accounts – there was a cry of theft and jail them from the public and why not? The Auditors were unearthing some glaring discrepancies committed by the recently dethroned PPP/C. At that time the matters of Aeshwar Deonarine and Carvil Duncan seemed an interesting case. These two Guys had been accused of taking monies that did not belong to them.
Every grandmother and grandfather domiciled in Guyana has taught their siblings and grandchildren that taking something that does not belong to you is called stealing. The Coalition called in the police to investigate- the public felt relief. They opined that finally two persons that were accused of stolen state monies were going to face a trial.
By the time charges were laid on Jan 27th 2016, Deonarine had migrated to Canada. On April 28th 2016 it was reported that two conspiracy charges were withdrawn against Deonarine after an application by police prosecutor Neville Jeffers was granted by chief magistrate, Ann Mclenan.
On July 15th 2016, it was reported that Deonarine’s name was dropped from the charges against Carvil Duncan after the DPP withdrew the charges against him because he had fled the country. This was done so that the court could proceed with Duncan’s trial. In slow but continuous progression, the heat evaporates from Deonarine. On April 29th it was reported that he (Deonarine ) offered to repay the money but GPL was supposed to have waited until it was transferred from his US bank accounts.
Did Deonarine repay the monies to someone? Neville Jeffers and the DPP need to explain how and why charges against Deonarine were dropped leaving Duncan to face the rap when both of them were faced with the same charges. I remember asking a friend how could this happen? His response was; “Every time you watch a monster movie with a few white guys and one black guy the monster always kills the black guy first. So what’s the point, I queried.
He replied;”You stupid, inn the movies the black guy dies first so that the producer doesn’t have to pay him much. Here one type of guy walks away with 27 million and no charges while another type of guy gets a mere million and has to face charges. “Well! that’s funny!”, I exclaimed.
Deonarine, probably presuming that the heat was cooling from him because of something he did or did not do to make the DPP drop the charges against him. He attempted to make the entire issue disappear through an “order of nisi certiorari” against the DPP and police commissioner from a fixed address in the United States. The order had sought to quash the allegation against him claiming they were irrational, unreasonable, erroneous in law and should be considered null and void. Can you believe this guy! Didn’t his grandparents tell
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