Georgetown: Self-confessed drug trafficker, Barry Dataram who accused the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) of corruption has raised the ire of the units head James Singh who is urging citizens “to stand up, speak out, to have the tenacity to testify against the elements of the narcotic trade; and help the Unit make Guyana a safer place.”
“CANU, them is the most corrupted, rogue security force in this country. They are the biggest drug dealer this country has. The same drug that they seize, half of it goes back on the street,” Dataram stated in an interview on HGPTV Channel 67’s Nightly News.
Dataram reportedly said that he decided to go public with this information after CANU officers conducted a raid on his nephew’s house and removed $13 million; however they are only able to account for $10 million.
In a missive released to the press Monday evening, CANU vehemently denies all allegations of impropriety levelled against the Unit by the Dataram family.
“The very Troy Dataram who now alleges impropriety on CANU’s Ranks’ behalf saw his concerns being investigated by a relevant body disconnected from CANU. CANU is now informed that the said Troy Dataram signed to a handwritten transcript of a lengthy interview conducted by the independent investigator in relation to the alleged missing three (3) million dollars,” the CANU head noted.
Not delving into the details of the ongoing investigation Troy Dataram, Singh stated without any assistance from Barry Dataram after pages of relating a particular story as to his ownership of twelve million dollars borrowed from a cousin in Canada to purchase land in Guyana exclaimed much details to the effect that he was sorry that he lied to the investigator about the quantity of cash retrieved in the operation and instead that is was in fact $9M.
Further, James Singh stated “it must be noted that Barry Dataram’s trial for possession of a large quantity of cocaine concealed in Shrimp in 2015 in His Diamond abode has commenced in February 2016 in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and may be a source of much of the unease for Mr. Barry Dataram, hence his savagery against CANU.”
Looking on the positive side of the revelation made by Dataram, the CANU head stated that he welcomes the frank confessions of Mr. Dataram as to his involvement in the Narcotics Trade. He implored him and others like himself connected to the narcotic trade both small and large; mules and traffickers alike; to attend the nearest court, police station and or the CANU Head Quarters Georgetown to provide useful intelligence (by way of sworn statement) in past and ongoing investigations and operations.
The CANU chief concludes by stating that he agrees with HGPTV Channel 67’s Nightly News with the general theme of the television station’s involvement in the matter to the effect: “That all law enforcement bodies should operate justly and within the confines of the law!; That in this welcomed wave of change Guyanese should continue to adopt this apparently new stance of intolerance to white collar crime plaguing Guyana and that that Guyanese must take a stand and end its mute attitude to the conducts of criminal elements witnessed daily!”
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