Tax evasion deal seen as raising credibility questions for Glenn Lall

Glenn Lall

A secret settlement of tax evasion charges this month between the revenue authority and Kaieteur News boss Glenn Lall will raise questions about the latter’s credibility considering his crusading stance in exposing government corruption and the targeting of government officials and former president Bharrat Jagdeo for questionable conduct.

Observers say that considering his newspaper’s frequent reportage on what it deemed to be corrupt acts by government officials and their efforts to evade the rule of law, Lall’s silence on his own settlement of tax evasion charges pertaining to two luxury Lexus vehicles will colour his public utterances as hypocritical.

Further, observers have noted that a settlement of any sort would suggest that Lall and his co-defendants, his wife Bhena Lall and friends, Narootandeo and Gharbassi Brijnanan have accepted a degree of culpability which Lall himself should explain given his and his newspaper’s stance on probity in public life. It has been further pointed out that the