Retired cop charged for allegedly abducting businessman

Sep 18, 2022 News

Kaieteur News – While two men remain at large for the abduction of a businessman on Monday last, police have moved to charge an ex-cop who was reportedly their accomplice,.

The ex-cop, 55-year-old Kenneth Bahadur of Melanie, East Coast Demerara (ECD) made his first court appearance on Friday at the Georgetown Magistrates Courts.

Charged for allegedly abducting a businessman, retired cop, Kenneth Bahadur

He was charged with the abduction of businessman, Jagdesh Mangal and the charge was read to him by Magistrate Leron Daly. The charge was reportedly laid indictable and his lawyer, Patrice Henry asked for reasonable bail on his behalf.

Bail was granted in the sum of $200,000 with the condition that Bahadur reports to police every Monday.

According to reports, the victim accused Bahadur of accompanying two men to beat, abduct, and rob him of millions in gold and diamond jewellery.

The man said that his abductors are known to him, and alleged that an ongoing dispute between them over money might have led them to commit the criminal act.

The businessman was abducted around 19:00hrs at a popular bar located at Station Street, Kitty, Georgetown.

He recalled drinking at the bar when the two men pulled up in a vehicle and walked up to him in the company of the ex-policeman.

They allegedly began physically assaulting him as they demanded their money. The victim claimed that the ex-policeman advised his assailants to “take him away” (abduct him). His attackers agreed and they forced him into the back seat of their vehicle and drove off.

He said that while they were in the vicinity of Vlissengen Road, one of the men held him at gunpoint and relieved him of a gold and diamond band worth $1.5M, one black diamond gold ring valued at $1.2M and a $900,000 gold chain. The businessman said that the assault did not end there. He related that they took him to one of their homes in Kitty and at gunpoint forced him to sign a statement claiming that he owes them $900,000. With the signed statement in their possession, the suspects took him to Church Street where they dumped him out of their vehicle in front of a hotel.

After the matter was reported, detectives visited the bar where he was abducted to conduct their investigation and several individuals, including the bar owner, corroborated the businessman’s story.
The bar owner reportedly told police that she was in the bar’s kitchen when she heard the commotion at the front. The woman told police that when she came out, she saw two men “beating up” the businessman and forcing him into the vehicle. She recalled asking the ex-policeman to stop them but he refused to help.

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