Based on his record, Henry Greene should have been fired, not promoted to Police Commissioner, opposition coalition APNU said yesterday, while charging that the US DEA allegations against him could likely snare President Bharrat Jagdeo.
“With the state security and intelligence apparatus at his disposal, President Jagdeo cannot plead ignorance of what was, and is, taking place under his nose,” APNU said in a statement, in reference to the recently leaked US diplomatic cables, read at its weekly press briefing.
The cables, made public via the WikiLeaks website, note allegations by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) that Greene “benefited from the proceeds of drug trafficking,”—a charge he has
