Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan has fixed April 3 for the start of the trial of former General Manager of the Guyana Marketing Corporation (GMC) Nizam Hassan, who is accused of approving payments for substandard work on the rehabilitation of the company’s Robb Street headquarters.
Former Agriculture Ministry engineer Hanniel Madramootoo is alleged to have conspired with Hassan and others to approve payments to Constantine Engineering and Construction Services, although the works were “incompetently and incorrectly” done.
The charges were laid after a Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) probe of the findings in a forensic audit.
So far, only Hassan and Felicia De Souza-Madramootoo, the wife of the engineer, have been charged. The other co-defendants in the case are
