Monday, January 21, 2019
PPP warns not to give donations on its behalf to US-based crooks Rueben Khusial & Jeewan Arun Persaud
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is warning the general public not to give donations on its behalf to two U.S based Guyanese. In a statement issued on March 10th, 2018 the party said that Rueben Khusial and his associate Jeewan Arun Persaud, a supporter of the Alliance for Change, are not authorized to solicit donations, whether cash or kind or organize fundraisers on its behalf.
According to a Freedom House source, the two have pocketed hundreds of thousands of US dollars raised through fundraisers and donations by supporters in the US. The issue came to a head after Bharrat Jagdeo was elected General Secretary of the party and he received numerous reports of financial irregularities against the two.
In the statement, the PPP said that in early 2017 it sought to engage Khusial in relation to the manner in which the business of the New York Mirror Newspaper was conducted and to seek accountability. This was after at a meeting of the Party’s Executive, it was brought to the leadership’s attention that Khusial was not submitting financial statements and that he had effectively converted the activities of the New York Mirror to a “one-man affair”.
"The Executive Committee of the Party also heard of numerous complaints that Mr. Khusial was soliciting donations in New York creating the impression that they were for Party approved activities", the PPP said.
In addition, Khusial also incorporated the overseas Mirror in his name thereby converting it into his own property. Khusial was then joined by Persaud a social media campaign to distort these facts.
