Pilot held with US$620,000 has private hangar at Timehri

Khemraj Lall

-President flew to Brazil on plane

The aircraft on which US$620,000 was found in Puerto Rico last week was registered in the United States but it was based here in a private hangar at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri owned by the businessman/pilot implicated in the haul, Kem Khamraj Lall.

Security sources say the arrest of Lall in Puerto Rico on November 22 with the huge amount of cash would be deeply embarrassing to the government here and would raise a host of security questions. Sources say the administration was likely to do an immediate review of the permission for Lall to have a private hangar at Timehri and it was likely that it would be revoked.

The source say the million-dollar question is what would have happened to