Let's see if the PPP will still protect him like they did before.

Isn't this coming at a bad time for the PPP?

Karma catching up with them.

Background on Dataram

Demerara Waves breaks a big story that Barry Dataram has been busted.

A Guyana-born American, who has previously eluded efforts to extradite him to the United States (US) , was Thursday arrested after more than 100 kilogrammes of cocaine and a sum if Guyanese currency were allegedly found in his possession. He has been identified as Barry “Mogatini” Dataram. 

Dataram was arrested four times starting in late 2007 as the US pursued his extradition for cocaine smuggling offences. However each time his lawyers Glen Hanoman and the late Vic Puran managed to set him free.

Here’s the background  from KN

Dataram came up into the spotlight after the kidnapping of his wife, Sheleza, and their three-year-old daughter in December 2007 by two Venezuelans, one of whom was later shot dead in a confrontation with the police.
Dataram was then arrested and detained by police beyond the 72 hours that the law allows a person to be held in custody before being charged. His lawyers subsequently approached the court with a habeas corpus writ but police asked for an extension to conclude their investigation into the kidnapping, which they said was drug-related.
What followed was a series of court appearances during which Dataram was twice set free and rearrested.
He was finally set free in December 2008 when he had appeared before the current attorney general who was a judge at the time.
He was arrested on at least two pervious occasions on provisional warrants as the US was seeking his extradition.
In the wake of the Dataram case, Government, through the Attorney General, announced that it would modify the law. In the latter part of 2009 the Government passed an amendment to the Fugitive Offenders Act 1988 to address the conflict that arose within the law regarding individuals here being extradited.
The amendment also controversially included a provision, which empowers the Home Affairs Minister to decide whether to extradite, or not.
The United States is seeking Dataram for cocaine smuggling offences, but has been unable to secure his provisional arrest because the extradition treaty between Guyana and the US contains a proviso which allows the US to extradite to third countries, clashing with the provisions of the Fugitive Offenders Act, which says “no one shall be extradited or kept in custody for the purpose of extradition from Guyana to another country unless provision has been made by that Commonwealth or treaty-country for ensuring that they would not be extradited to a third country for trial of any offence without the consent of the Minister.”
As a result, extraditions to the US have been on hold awaiting a new agreement or an amendment of the law.

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