US preparing to help Guyana in gold smuggling probe – Ambassador

As investigations into the smuggling of gold here continues, the United States is preparing an assistance package after it was approached by the Guyana government for help.

“We will be helping the government with that as much as they want us to and have been asked and we are trying to put together something that will provide them some assistance,” US Ambassador Perry Holloway told Stabroek News in an exclusive interview on Friday.

Government and law enforcement officials have said that there has been major smuggling of gold to the US and other countries,