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The Guyana Police Force yesterday unveiled a laptop and a transmitter that they claimed were seized from Guyanese drug trafficker Roger Khan and two other men, Haroon Yahya and Sean Belfield.At a brief press conference at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, Commissioner Henry Greene explained that the equipment on display were those seized by the Guyana Defence Force on December 4, 2002 at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara.Officials at yesterday’s press briefing, from left: Retired Senior Supt. Frederick Caesar,Cheap Jerseys From China, Acting Crime Chief Edgar Thomas,NFL Jerseys China Online, Commissioner Henry Greene and PRO Ivelaw Whittaker “The electronic equipment was lodged with the Guyana Police Force by Superintendent Frederick Caesar. This is the equipment lodged with the force,” Greene said while indicating the Panasonic laptop and what appeared to be a receiver with the listing CSM 7806 on the front.Ever since US Prosecutors announced that they had seized ‘Spy’ equipment’ capable of intercepting telephone calls from the office of Robert Simels, former attorney for Shaheed Roger Khan, there have been questions about similar equipment that local police said they had in their possession.Greene, on several occasions, had insisted that the police had the equipment they had seized from Khan in their possession. However, they were only unveiled after persistent requests to the police commissioner to produce it.Greene acknowledged that the trial of Roberts Simels has been attracting a lot of attention both locally and internationally.He pointed out that in light of this development and the revelations that are emerging as evidence in the trial, there have been a lot of speculation,Marlon Humphrey Jersey, alignment,China Jerseys Cheap, finger pointing and blame.“I have been bombarded by many reporters who continue to ask questions about equipment which the force seized from Roger Khan…equipment that has been part of the focus of that trial,” the Commissioner said.He said that he is not disassociating himself from the trial but with what he took over when he became Police Commissioner on July 24, 2006.“You know you bear the burden but you also bear the blessing, they say,NBA Authentic Jerseys, and therefore once you take the seat you have to bear whatever goes with the seat. I have no difficulty with that,” Greene said.But after a brief statement the Commissioner refused to field questions from anxious reporters,Fernando Rodney Jersey, stating that a lot of the questions that may be asked would be about what happened in 2002.“I was not the Crime Chief, I was nowhere there, I might have just come back from studying in Trinidad,” Greene said.During the Simels trial, testimony from three witnesses stated that the equipment that is in the possession of the US authorities was sold on the authorisation of the Guyana Government in 2003. |
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