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A city businesswoman cheated out of over $1M says she is frustrated and tired of being pushed around by the police who are tasked with addressing her dilemma.Sharmila Persaud, who operates Sharmila’s Lumber Dealers at Water Street, Werk-en-Rust, was robbed of $1,NFL Jerseys Supply,039,Cheap NFL Jerseys China,000 in late March, when a customer purchasing a number of lumber products, paid with a cheque from a bank account that went dormant since early 2000.The useless cheque used to pay for lumber and the notice of the disabled bank accountDespite fulfilling the groundwork and providing the account holder’s information from the bank to the police, Persaud claims that ranks of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) working on the matter are refusing to make earnest moves toward investigating the fraud and taking the necessary criminal action against the “well connected” conspirators.Persaud explained that the named fraudster used the last Easter Holidays to make the purchase, knowing that the bank would not be able to verify the cheque during the long holiday weekend.She said on March 31 last, the customer, calling himself Hemraj Bhagwandin entered her establishment and requested a quantity of lumber.The man paid with a Bank of Nova Scotia cheque which she Persaud planned to deposit into her account. The businesswoman explained that on April 2nd last, she deposited the cheque,Jerseys From China, only to receive from the Bank of Nova Scotia a few days later,Nike NFL Jerseys China, a notice stating that the account on which the cheque was drawn had been closed for several years.Persaud said she made all initial checks to ascertain information about the account holder. It was then she learnt that the name on the cheque was false and the customer was not who he claimed to be.More checks later led her to a popular city boxing club. All the information gathered was taken to the CID and handed over she told this newspaper. Sometime later, four individuals associated with the bank account were arrested.That, however, is as far as the police have gone, Persaud fumed.While the four men arrested are out on station bail, the woman said that police ranks continuously told her, “Your word is not good enough; we have to get more evidence”, whenever she asked them about the progress of the matter.Persaud is however oblivious to what more is needed when, “everything the police said they will do, they have not yet fulfilled. They said they would have an identification parade, I went, nothing happened. They told me to come back another time; when I went they said I just missed the officer in charge,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, I must come back. When I go back the next time, they say he is not available and that is how they have me up and down,Jerseys NFL China, up and down.”Persaud argued further that at present, the Officer-in-Charge of her matter is on vacation leave and absolutely nothing is happening with her matter.“I don’t know who I got to ask or who I got to go to for help. I just keep trying and every time, it’s like hitting a brick wall,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys,” the woman told Kaieteur News. |
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