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Plot to destroy Kaieteur News… More damning evidence surfaces from Sattaur

October 1, 2014 | By | Filed Under News 
 

This publication recently made public correspondence between the Commissioner General of the Guyana

GRA boss Khurshid Sattaur

GRA boss
Khurshid Sattaur

Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, Attorney General Anil Nandlall and former President Bharrat Jagdeo.
The publication has since seen allegations by Nandlall and Sattaur. In fact, the Commissioner General declined to comment on the e-mail, choosing instead to question the confidentiality of correspondence. On that occasion, the e-mail contained confidential tax information on local media houses and the threat of an impending audit of Kaieteur News by GRA.
Below is another e-mail sent to the Attorney General Anil Nandlall, from Khurshid Sattaur.

From: khurshid sattaur (khurshidsattaur@hotmail.com)
Sent: MOD 9/15/148:16 AM
To: Nandalall (anilnandlall@hotmail.com)
AG
It is of grave concern to me that the owner of Kaieteur News is engaged in a psychological game of tit for tat as it relates to targeting me every time something very obnoxious bordering onto illegality get leaked on him or that affects his credibility.
This concern stems from the fact that only recently in reply to the GRA upsetting his apple cart in showing what a corrupt and criminal minded individual this invidious character he is, he published information that on closer examination can be considered as libellous. Since he is a dirty person, i am not inclined after this recent episode of slanderous reporting,

Attorney General Anil Nandlall

Attorney General
Anil Nandlall

 

prepared to expose my character to being sullied by this depraved and mentally sick individual. I must be given assurances from the government I server that no stones will be left unturned to safeguard my reputation while I pursue these kind of invidious characters. It is instructive to note that the reason why Freddie is now averse to writing trash concerning me is because a multi-million-dollar assessments hang over his head like the sword of demacles.
As the Attorney General of this great land of ours the minimum I would expect from you is legal protection from the courts invoking the laws that protects me against such attacks using his media house, as this individual knows no limits as to what he can put someone through once he targets them. I have a wife and family and as recently demonstrated, in the publication captioned above, not only did the scoundrel obtain accurate information on the purpose of my trip to Trinidad but added, from the figment of his own imagination, sufficient garbage to taint me as a terrorist and a criminal minded individual similar to our attempt to portray him. The difference however between us, is that while I received a National award for outstanding work of an exceptionally high order, this demon only claim to fame is perhaps his notoriety.
I am therefore appealing to you in the interest on preserving my prestige and pristine character to act condignly and swiftly to prosecute this vagrant under the Customs Act and if possible have him jailed as the offence of harassing a GRA officer us a very serious one and has jail term.
I will before the end of the day have a file with the various newspaper clippings attesting to the execution of his threats he conveyed to me through a telephone conversation, on the night of the attempted seizure of his vehicles and for which i filed a police-report on the matter.
I am indeed looking forward to your usual efficient manner in taking action and would be willing to give any further

Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo

Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo

information you may require to have the matter successfully prosecuted.

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Khurshid Sattaur should spend time improving his English than obsessing over Glenn Lall. As head of the Guyana Revenue Agency, his punctuation and spelling are below standard, as is demonstrated in that email to the Attorney General. Brilliant secondary school students in Guyana are probably laughing at him.

FM

Mr. Khurshid Sattaur ought to know better

OCTOBER 2, 2014 | BY  | FILED UNDER LETTERS 

DEAR EDITOR,
The GRA, like the IRS in America and like any other tax authority, is legally obligated to protect confidential tax information of others.  As the evidence is unfolding and the allegations continue to fly, it is coming to the attention of the public that the GRA appears to be leaking protected information to a private citizen in the person of Bharrat Jagdeo.  This is a dangerous development, and as Moses Nagamootoo highlighted, “possibly the worst crime in modern Guyana”.
As a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Mr. Sattaur ought to know he is duty bound professionally to “respect the confidentiality of information acquired as a result of professional relationships and shall not disclose such information to third parties without proper legal authority (such an order of the court)”.
It is just professionally incompetent and reckless to provide a private citizen in the person of Jagdeo with confidential tax information on other parties, especially those for whom he has a dislike.  How can we be sure now that bandits in Guyana are now not in receipt of the taxable income of the citizens from agents in the GRA which then forms the database of who to attack for robbery and who not to attack?
The integrity of the institution, the GRA, is now under question, since its leader has been less than straightforward and appears to be extremely dishonest in his dealings with the public.  He now appears to be demonstrating much bias against Kaieteur News and it is imperative that he step down from office and allow his deputy to conduct the affairs of the GRA until he can be fully investigated in light of these strong allegations of conflict of interest and improper professional behaviour.
In this regard, we call on a professional Accountant to lodge a formal complaint with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Guyana and the Caribbean, and also with the ACCA, to formally investigate this alleged violation of the Code of Professional Ethics and Conduct of the ACCA.
This is a serious matter and Mr. Khurshid Sattaur ought to know better.
Dr Asquith Rose and Harish Singh

Mars
Originally Posted by Gilbakka:

Khurshid Sattaur should spend time improving his English than obsessing over Glenn Lall. As head of the Guyana Revenue Agency, his punctuation and spelling are below standard, as is demonstrated in that email to the Attorney General. Brilliant secondary school students in Guyana are probably laughing at him.

Gilly, there are a lot of post secondary education posters here on GNI too.

FM

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