Weeks after several senior PPP members, including former president Bharrat Jagdeo and close affiliates, were hauled in for questioning over the sale of land at ‘Pradoville 2’ at below market prices, the probe is still ongoing.
This is according to head of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) Sydney James, who reiterated that the probe is a complex one. “The investigation is ongoing,” he told Stabroek News on Monday.
Jagdeo; former head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon; former natural resources minister Robert Persaud; Lisaveta Ramotar, who is the General Manager of the Guyana Gold Board and daughter of former president Donald Ramotar; Ramesh Dookhoo, former Chairman of the Private Sector Commis-sion; and Dr Ghansham Singh, who were all beneficiaries of house lots in the scheme, were arrested and questioned before being released without charge on March 7. That same day Marcia Nadir-Sharma, former Deputy Director of state holding company NICIL, was also questioned.
