Benschop refuses to give cops statement on reported murder plot

Politician Mark Benschop yesterday refused to give police a statement on a reported $3 million contract on his life after saying that one of the ranks who turned up to interview him was among those alerted to the plot.

“I told both ranks that I see it as a conflict of interest… I couldn’t continue the meeting,” Benschop told Stabroek News yesterday, while noting that the rank attempted to deny knowledge of what he was saying but he had an audio recording that proved otherwise.

Benschop had told Stabroek News on Friday that Regan Rodrigues, called ‘Grey Boy,’ one of the suspects