| As the authorities widen their probe into the seizure of two suspected illegal vehicles from the Campbellville home of former Minister Dr Desrey Fox, indications are that the smuggling of vehicles from Guyana’s neighbours may be more widespread and organized than believed.Millions of dollars in taxes are believed to have been diverted from government coffers over recent years as all kinds of methods were used to bring vehicles. Some ‘importers’ used forged papers to register them.On Wednesday, two vehicles believed to have been brought to Guyana from Brazil were seized from the home of Fox, mere hours after she was cremated.Her son, Terrence Fox, said on Thursday, that one of the vehicles was brought to the city by Giuliano D’Aguiar,Jerseys NFL China, a minibus driver who died earlier this month on the Lethem Road after his minibus crashed head-on with a SUV.Yesterday, the mother of the dead man,Wholesale Jerseys From China, Olive D’Aguiar, refuted the report that her son had brought down the pickup to Georgetown.“I know my son. While he knows the Fox family,Throwback Jerseys, all he ever did was work his bus. He is dead and accusations that my son bought the vehicle to Georgetown are all lies, from the depths of hell.”According to the woman, it is unclear how her son, who does not smoke or drink,Cheap NFL Jerseys, was dragged into the situation.While there were no word from the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on the seizure of the vehicles, well-placed sources confirmed that police have become involved in the matter and may be seeking to question how two policemen from Lethem ended up escorting one of the vehicles, a white Chevrolet Corsa, to Georgetown on Monday evening.SeizureAt the time of the seizure her body was being cremated. The two vehicles, a silver Toyota Hilux and a white Chevrolet Corsa, were said to have been brought from Brazil to Georgetown via the Georgetown/Lethem road.A well-placed source close to the investigation, disclosed that one of the vehicles, the Chevrolet, was brought to the city using the number plates of a vehicle belonging to the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs.Several officers of the enforcement arm of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) along with police reportedly descended on the late Minister’s home at Echilibar Villas, Campbellville, for the seizures.Regarding the Chevrolet,NFL Cheap Jerseys, Terrence Fox said that it was brought to the city by persons who came for the funeral and who promised to return for it but up to the time of the seizure had not done so.He said that they were not his and as far as he was concerned the GRA could keep them. However, another picture is emerging.According to the source close to the investigation, the seizures by GRA on Thursday were prompted after GRA officials discovered that the Chevrolet car bore number plates that belonged to a pickup of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs.Kaieteur News understands that on Monday two men, who introduced themselves as members of the Narcotics Branch of the Guyana Police Force and who were stationed at Lethem, told GRA officials along the Lethem road that they were escorting the car to Georgetown.However, officials became suspicious after they saw the back number plate of the Chevrolet was “too clean”.Reports were made to the Georgetown office where an investigation was launched.Commissioner-General of the GRA Khurshid Sattaur on Thursday said that his men had been tracking the vehicles. The investigators found that the vehicles had Guyana plates but had not been registered with the Guyana Revenue Authority.The vehicles are parked at the GRA’s Auction Site, Good Hope, East Coast Demerara.The news of the seizures came at a time when GRA says that it is battling a huge problem of illegal vehicles in the country.Earlier this week,Alex Delvecchio Red Wings Jersey, the body announced that it has discovered numerous cases of false documents across the country being used to register vehicles.And a great number of these vehicles came from as close as Suriname and Brazil and were left in Guyana illegally. |
