News of the recent arrest of three Guyanese ? Isaac Sarjoo, Richard Sarjoo and Roy Arjune ? in Suriname with approximately 35 pounds of gold said to be worth about US$500,000, seemed so commonplace that it hardly caused a stir in legal, financial or political circles.
Dr Roger Luncheon, who is Chairman of the Central Intelligence Committee along with his substantive appointments as Secretary of the Guyana Defence Board, Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Secretary to the Cabinet, had no compunction about admitting to the media that it was almost “common knowledge that gold is being smuggled to Suriname from Guyana.” Unable or unwilling to undertake a more profound analysis of the crime, Dr Luncheon seemed satisfied to say simply that the three men will have to give an account of what transpired.
