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Kaieteur News – A prosecutor attached to the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) who was caught last week in a police sting operation accepting bribe money from a gold miner, was today charged for collecting bribe from the gold miner.
Sherwin Crandon, the GGMC prosecutor that was charged.
The defendant, Sherwin Crandon, 44, of George Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, made his first court appearance before Chief Magistrate, Ann McLennan, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday. He pleaded not guilty and was charged for corrupt transaction by an agent.
The charge states that on Wednesday last, at Seeta’s Bar, Kitty, Georgetown, being a prosecutor employed with the GGMC, he corruptly obtained $300,000 from Viveka Singh as an inducement for forbearing to prosecute and to cause the matter to be dismissed against Singh, for illegal mining, an act in relation to his principal affairs.
Crandon was granted $150,000 bail and the matter was adjourned to June 8. According to an initial report by the Force, a gold miner visited the GPF on Wednesday last at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters at Eve Leary, Georgetown, and disclosed to the police that, in 2019, he was charged by the GGMC for illegal mining at Blackwater, Mahdia.
The man further revealed that Crandon called him on Wednesday and informed him that he was willing to dismiss his case if he paid him $300,000. He said the prosecutor went on to tell him that if he does not comply then he would be convicted for the offence.
The miner said Crandon then gave him a location to meet him at a popular bar in Station Street, Kitty, on Wednesday at 16:00 hrs. A sting operation was executed by the GPF when the GGMC prosecutor met the miner at the bar and was subsequently confronted by police – a search was conducted on him and the $300,000 was found in his pants pocket. He was informed of the allegation, arrested and taken to the Brickdam Police Station.
After Crandon was arrested, he told the GPF that he is a prosecutor at GGMC and he was prosecuting an active matter against the said gold miner at Mahdia Magistrate Court, which was being tried at the Diamond Magistrate Court. Crandon admitted that he did collect the money from the gold miner, but claimed that he wanted to “borrow” it.
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