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The United States embassy here says it has no knowledge of the details in a Guyana Chronicle story carried in yesterday’s edition of that newspaper and said the US has no law enforcement agents in Guyana.
The Chronicle, in a story headlined ‘FBI agents visit New Line Aquaculture Farm, vehicles seized’ reported that FBI and Drug Enforcement Agents (DEA) of the US visited the home of proprietor of the farm, Salim Juman-Azeez last week and reported a police source as saying that vehicles belonging to the businessman were seized. According to the report, the visit was premised on the detention in the US of a close associate of the businessman.
But the Public Affairs Office of the embassy, in a brief statement to this newspaper said that the US has no law enforcement agents, whether FBI or DEA, in Guyana and the embassy has no knowledge of the details in the Chronicle story.
Juman-Azeez is reportedly the father-in-law of Barry Dataram, who is wanted by the US for drug offences.
