Another former employee of Sol Guyana Incorporated, who allegedly stole over $11 million worth of fuel from the company, appeared before the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
Leslie Sommerset of Victoria, East Coast Demerara pleaded not guilty to the charge of simple larceny when it was read to him by Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle.
Sommerset is the sixth man charged with stealing over 57,000 litres of fuel from Sol.
It is alleged that on April 25, Sommerset along with five other men, all former employees of or attached to the company, stole over 57,000 litres of fuel valued $11,131,818.
Ivor Cameron, 20, of First Street Alberttown; Surendra Ramchandra, 21, of Cornelia Ida Squatting Area, West Coast Demerara; Terrence Mackintosh, 32, of Lot 16 Supply, East Bank Demerara; Andre Mohammed, 27, of 9E30 South Cummings Lodge and Dameon Hunter of 5 Ogle Front, East Coast Demerara are the other five men charged. They all appeared before the court on May 12.
Summerset, like the others, was placed on $300,000 bail and the matter is to continue on May 30 in Court Six.
