SOCU charges GBTI directors with contempt

Less than a day before the High Court is scheduled to hear an application from the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) on the production of key documents, the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) yesterday charged the bank’s directors with contempt and they are to appear in a Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Monday to answer.

Stabroek News was reliably informed that the charge was instituted based on the advice of the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) following a second review of the case file.

This newspaper was told that Chairman Robin Stoby SC, John Tracey, Edward Beharry, Suresh Beharry, Kathryn Eytle- McLean, Basil Mahadeo, Carlton James and Richard Isava have been charged with the failure to comply with a production order. They were all invited to SOCU’s Camp Street Headquarters, where they were charged.

The contempt proceedings