-found in car trunk with plastic taped over head
Ramzan Alli, a Good Hope businessman, was yesterday discovered dead in the trunk of a rental car with a plastic bag duct-taped over his head on the Coldingen Railway Embankment Road.
The 45-year-old man, of Kissoon’s Housing Scheme, Good Hope, East Coast Demerara, (ECD) left his home on Saturday night after receiving a call. Alli’s death comes almost a year after his brother, scrap metal dealer Akbar Alli, was fatally shot during a daring daylight robbery on Brickdam, Georgetown.
Police in a press statement last evening said they are investigating the murder of Alli. The man’s body, according to them, was found at about 8.30 am yesterday on the Coldingen Railway Embankment Road in the trunk of a motor car which Alli had rented. A plastic bag held in place by duct tape was tied over Alli’s head, police said.
Ramzan Alli
Investigations have revealed that the man left his home about 9.20 pm on Saturday after receiving a phone call. After Alli failed to returned home, police said, relatives and employees conducted a search yesterday morning and found the rental vehicle on the road.
The police were subsequently informed and a search later revealed Alli’s body in the trunk. Alli’s body was taken to the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour. Police are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination and investigations are ongoing.
There were no visible marks of violence on Alli’s body, a source said last evening, and the man’s hands and feet were not bound. The man, the source explained, “most likely died of suffocation”.
“There was only a plastic bag over his head which was duct-taped to his neck,” the source reported, “other than that there was nothing else on his body, no bindings, no wounds, no nothing.”
Alli’s wife and a male relative were seen in the back of a police van exiting the Good Hope housing scheme when Stabroek News visited the area yesterday. This newspaper later learnt from relatives that the woman was on her way to the station to give police a statement.
“We weren’t here so we can’t say anything,” one relative said yesterday. “They just took his [Alli’s] wife to the station to give a statement and there is no one else here who can say anything.”
Asked about the type of business Alli conducted, relatives said, “It is not our place to say”. However, Stabroek News was reliably informed that the man transported fuel, groceries and other items to the North West District to sell.
Alli leaves to mourn his wife, three sons and two daughters. Stabroek News understands that when the man left his home on Saturday he did not tell his family where he was going. As it grew late, reports said, Alli’s wife tried to contact him on his mobile but he could not be reached. The man, this newspaper learnt, would habitually turn off his cellular phone whenever he left the house for business. Sources say police will be likely tracking down the person who called him on Saturday night for further clues.
Relatives were also not able to say whether Alli left his home with cash or other valuables or whether anything might have gone missing. Meanwhile, police have given no indication that the man might have been robbed before his death.
An East Coast resident, who drove past the Coldingen area shortly before 1 am yesterday, reported seeing a car parked there. The resident explained that they did not stop to investigate because it was late and they saw no sign that anyone was in or out of the vehicle. While it is possible that it might have been Alli’s rental car, the resident said, they are in no position to “vouch for that”.
The time and place of Alli’s murder is uncertain. A police source has since indicated that it is possible that Alli may have been murdered at a different location and then abandoned on the lonely Coldingen road. There are no occupied dwellings very close to the area where Alli’s rental car was discovered.
The man’s younger brother, 35-year-old Akbar Alli, died on July 24 last year after sustaining a single, fatal gunshot wound to the chest shortly after 1 pm that day.
Police, in statement issued hours after Akbar Alli’s death, said their investigations revealed that the man and his wife went to a city bank where they transacted some business. They then went to another city bank and then proceeded to Brickdam with the intention of transacting business with an auto dealer.
Alli, police had said, parked his motor vehicle and he and his wife, who was holding a bag containing $2.1 million were about to exit the vehicle when two men rode up on a motorcycle. The pillion rider, who was armed with a handgun, held them up and took away the bag and the men then rode away. Alli began running behind the motorcycle and the armed man then shot him in his chest.
business men as usual, traveling into the interior transporting ?????????????????????????????????.
you be the judge in the next few days as the plot unravels.
… to and from NW district !!! go figure ! the curse of de “yeayo” !
Can you see past your nose?
Are all the business owners robbed, killed or maimed guilty of some crime?
There is a disturbing trend of business owners being targeted for robbery and murder.
Why isn’t the govt protecting these people? These businessmen are the ones trying to rebuild the country. They take enormous risks to provide valuable services. Does the govt want us to go back to the bartering system?
For god’s sake WAKE UP JAGDEO AND PROTECT THE PEOPLE!!!!
Why would anyone want to return and contribute to Guyana with new found capital and business expertise? To die?
SECURITY (lack of)IS THE MAIN REASON GUYANESE LIVING ABROAD DO NOT WANT TO RETURN HOME AND CONTRIBUTE!!!!!!!
not from gt, how far is your nose from your eyes.
it’s a pattern, all the business men have links to the interior are killed.
TRANSPORTATION< TRANSPORTATION< TRANSPORTATION. my friend.
NotFromGT, that “new found capital” can be the cause of lots of problems; who knew you found it and whose capital it was.
But, you’re excused; you’re not from GT, eh?
freespeech.. Your assumptions are most likely correct, leaving home late at night on Saturday night and turning one’s phone off when he goes for business. Both somewhat abnormal. Why a rental car? Yes, I know he may not own his own car but still good questions.
NotFromGT… Are you from Guyana? I am surprised to see that you think the “self serving” Government in Guyana would even consider protecting the people. A good concept that will never happen. I will not at this time point any fingers but the obvious is usually not to far apart from what actually has happened. Many business owners are wealthier then what they are selling (vending) will bring in! What else can explain that obvious extra income?
Michael…. What is the “yeayo”? I am still learning. “smile”
NotFromGT,
I will take it literally that you are not from Gt, otherwise you would be extremely delusional to be making these comments.
There are numerous innocent, clean, and hardworking businessmen and women in Gt who have been into business for decades and have suffer nothing more than an occasional petty robbery, if any.
While you’re at it why not ask yourself why is it that only the “just come – businessmen” that seem to be meeting such terrible ends?
These “Business men” are doing so well these day. Amazingly,
they can buy and/or build Multi million dollar assets from the little businesses they conduct.
Not true LoveGT4. My relatives were brutally attacked and robbed. They were in an honest business for over 20 years. I could give you a long list of others.
Perhaps it is the ‘occasional petty robbery’ that turns deadly?
One way the plot can unravel is to trace the number from which the call was made to Alli’s phone. This can’t be murder based on robbery; this guy likely was into some ’strange business dealings’. Did he know something or did he know too much? The fact he and his brother were killed, the same way george Bacchus and his brother were killed, you have to really wonder if Alli’s death was an ordered hit! BTW anyone knows the status of the death investigations on the Kalamadeen guy who was beheaded and his body found one place while his head was in another place?
The death of another “business man” will obviously cause a lot of raised eye brows.
I can’t fully understand why he would apparently block out his family as he “habitually turn off his cellular phone whenever he left the house for business”………….. friends, yes, customers maybe, but the wife?????
Anyway, it’s obvious that he would have been able to free himself of the plastic if he was just left to suffocate (as his hands were not bound), so the police should not be misdirected by this.
Hope they can tie up the ends, or else Gt will be in danger of loosing all it’s ‘business men”.
Just when you think crime has abated a little in Guyana, you have armed robbery in Berbice followed by a horrendous death.
We have long fallen over the precipice.
There is no hope for this country. Whomever is in is doomed.
Condolences to the family-This one seems fishy-I hope the police get to the bottom of this and it does not join the long list of unsolved murders.
Something fishy !! More to this story .
Brace yourself for a surprising conclusion.
the question is if we will ever hear wats the conclusion …….huh….amazing
Someone lured this man out of his home with no good intention. So this story needs further investigations. Check the phone to see who called him and if he met anyone!!! This is a terrible trend – What is Jagdeo doing about this matter?
Good point acklema , especially if some prominent businessmen are involved or some politicians.
Wasnt the PPP supposed to be the best party out there to protect indians in Guyana? what happened to this great big promise?
Seems like there are holes in that bag of goods the PPP sold us.
No Samaroo, I think is the AFC…The PPP has already secure their place in Guyana,, you think of what you and your AFC will promise the Guyanese and which one of your leaders you think can liveup to his expectations…The ball is in your court now so play it my boy,,,convince the Guyanese that your boys will do a better job…Do not shooot of your mouth…
The Police have to start launching serious investigations into the Murders and robberies which will start to increase again cominh up to election time by looking at all thoese who are singing the tunes “What has the PPP done for the people after 17 years”, by this they can certainly see that crimes will be politically motivated in an effort to win votes…
my opinion, remnants of the phantom , out of work and hired guns for hire, thats all it is folks, the tables are turn, the devil finds work for idle hands.no one is safe now.
The AFC is a vibrant new honest party that doesn’t have to make empty promises solideer and I guarantee you when we say we will deliver an FOI bill on a certain date or when we say we will be democratic we will be democratic not like ahhhh well you know who I am talking about.
Just to add to that for giggles sake if our parliamentarians or govt officials cannot get visas to go to the US we will disclose to the public why this is the case. Do you think your poo poo poo can honor those small tiny tasks we ask sir?
Solideer that is exactly the problem with the PPP they are secured in history so they do not think they have to do any work.
They can continue to holler oh is burnhame and 28 years, but guess what smarter the govt wiser the population. Jagdeo cannot believe the amount of support the AFC is getting from berbice now so he is trying to tarnish the good name of Khemraj Ramjattan.
Jagdeo needs to remember one thing Berbicians stick together and they will not tolerate this kind of low class, untruthful fairy tale campaign spun by unity boy.
We just wont have it.
Moderator apparently your 20/20 vision is compromised today.You seem not to see any comment submitted before 8.40am.Please put on your glasses!! lol.
Sympathies to his relatives,two brothers in one year,very sad,Guyana has too small a population for this kind of thing to be taking place so often,yet there are some who are in denial,and cannot admit that it is since this madministration started to turn a blind eye to certain crimes,there is no turning back,the damage is done,things can never get back to what it used to be,this is what we have ended up with…..jus fuh lil flour and lil foreign food items,ow!!
there’s more to this story that meets the eye!!!!!!!!! Exactly one year and (a few days before )after his brother’s death..he is murdered……..makes one wonder if we are not missign somehing.it cannot be coincidental!!!!!!!!
you are right catwoman there is something more to this story, the government has failed this family not once but twice.
Something went obviousley wrong here!! why would this man block all sort off communication when he go to do business?