The start of the trial of former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) accountant Peter Ramcharran has been postponed after the police requested time to reconstitute the case file following the removal of court documents from the offices of the Director of Public Prosecutions during the fire on Saturday that destroyed the nearby Office of Professional Responsibility at the Guyana Police Force Headquarters, Eve Leary, Kingston, Georgetown.
On Monday, when Ramcharran made his appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, he was informed that the prosecutor needed time to sort through the files that were removed on Saturday. Ramcharran is currently facing 17 charges which allege that as a member of the GRDB, he omitted or concurred in omitting entries related to a total of over $7 million from the organisation’s general ledger between January 11, 2010 and July 17, 2012.
