Saying the Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) has been cooperating with ongoing investigations, its Board of Directors yesterday voiced concern over the execution of a warrant by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) to search the agency’s Quamina Street, Georgetown headquarters on Thursday.
In a statement issued yesterday, the GEA Board of Directors reiterated its cooperation with the ongoing SOCU investigation but noted its concern over the execution of the “highly publicised search warrant.”
The Board noted that at no time was the GEA “reluctant, unavailable, or uncooperative in the submission and handover” of the requested documents. “Rather, on receipt of letter dated October 4, 2017 from SOCU to the GEA which requested a list of information, the GEA provided all required documentation within a two week period, save and except for documents and vouchers in excess of two thousand files for which the GEA, in its response, noted the potential impracticality due to its sheer volume and invited the Investigating Team to visit the GEA office at its convenience to review the files in totality. Again, while we respect SOCU’s mandate, we respectfully submit therefore that the search warrant was not necessary in this instance,” it said.
