The AFC yesterday called for the immediate removal of Khurshid Sattaur as Commissioner-General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), following the publication of what appeared to be an email exchange between him and Attorney-General Anil Nandlall discussing actions to be taken against the Kaieteur News.
The GRA subsequently said Sattaur viewed the party’s call as “malicious” and bordering on “intimidation.”
The Kaieteur News, whose publisher Glen Lall has accused Sattaur of targeting the newspaper in retaliation for its exposure of government wrongdoing, published the redacted emails purporting to show collusion by the GRA boss and Nandlall on Monday.
The AFC, in a press release issued yesterday, called for a thorough investigation of the “shocking” revelations of the targeting of the independent media by the GRA,
