Flood of luxury vehicles triggered remigrants probe – sources

The type of luxury vehicle that might be involved in the scam.

A flood of luxury vehicles on the roads prompted a government decision to probe the period 2010 to 2014 to test whether there was an abuse of duty-free concessions to remigrants, sources say.

Following the discovery of abuses, more charges are expected to be laid against persons since implicated in the remigrant duty-free scam at the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) which is suspected to be bigger than the one that occurred in 2003 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

At the moment, the Auditor General’s Office is still combing through the records of duty-free concessions which were