Isn't the ministry of finance approving these remigrant requests to bring in Fancy vehicles? so how did they miss this?
Isn't a PPP minister at the center of a scandal bringing in Hummer Limos?
Why did Sattaur lie to the RCMP?????????
‘Fancy vehicles’
According to the source it was the sudden appearance of an unusual amount of ‘fancy vehicles’ that started raising eye brows. The source insisted that it was the presence of these luxury vehicles and nothing more which sparked the investigations. A trip around the city would reveal several such vehicles, including Hummers.
Stabroek News was told that it has been a current trend for remigrants to bring in vehicles for people under the pretext that they belong to them. According to the source, customs staff are not being overlooked as it is suspected that both senior and junior staff members may be embroiled in the scam.
The source said too that it is suspected that most of the vehicles being brought in as part of the scam are luxury vehicles which makes the situation worse as they attract more duties than the regular ordinary vehicle.
Perdessa Dundas was slapped with 54 forgery and corruption transaction by an agent charges, over her alleged involvement in the 2003 Ministry of Foreign Affairs remigration scam,
In January 2005, acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan released Dundas on her own recognisance after she was slapped with 42 counts of forgery. It was alleged that Dundas on various dates in 2003, with intent to defraud, forged Ministry of Foreign Affairs Minutes in favour of several persons, purporting to show that they were signed by the then minister Rudy Insanally.
Then in June 2005, 12 more charges were added: two counts of corrupt transaction by an agent and ten counts of forgery. She had appeared before Sullivan and was released on $10,000 bail. Prior to these two sets of charges, Dundas together with another Ministry of Foreign Affairs employee Simone Hinds was charged with corrupt transaction and forgery. They were also accused of taking huge sums of money from persons as payment for the preparation and processing of duty-free concession letters. The case was heard by Magistrate Maxwell Edwards and they were both later acquitted.
When the scam was detected many persons from both the foreign affairs and finance ministries fell under suspicion.
Then in 2012, a similar scam erupted at the GRA but it had to do with duty-free concessions for local persons. Based on what this newspaper had gathered back then, one of the two junior officers implicated had admitted forging at least 20 duty-free letters for expensive vehicles and the taxes lost ran into tens of millions. Three other employees were subsequently identified as masterminds. Information was that the scam might have been running for some two years.
The duty-free letters were purported to have originated from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission as well as the Ministry of Agriculture.