Former Guyana Rice Develoment Board (GRDB) employee Peter Ramcharran is no fugitive from the law or a criminal, his Canada-based attorney Kaisree Chatarpaul said yesterday while noting that he intends to fight all attempts to have his client returned to Guyana for trial.
He said that facts were misrepresented and the wrong court proceedings were filed in Canada in a bid to have Ramcharran returned to Guyana faster.
Last month Ramcharran and several GRDB board members were charged with failing to record entries for funds amounting to over $250 million in total in the agency’s general ledger, from 2011 to 2015. An arrest warrant was issued by the court for Ramcharran.
Speaking to Stabroek News from his office in Ontario, Chatarpaul said that in 2015 while on
