Just over a month after being slapped with a $200 million defamation suit, Sergeant Dion Bascom is facing yet another lawsuit—this time to the tune of $50 million—brought against him by Mohamed’s Enterprise security personnel, Mark Richmond.
Richmond’s claim is that Bascom made certain defamatory statements about him on Facebook which has caused him “great embarrassment, psychological trauma, emotional distress and public humiliation.”
He said that the statements were among other things “false, dangerous and malicious;” and have tarnished and lowererd his reputation.
It is against this background that Richmond (the Claimant), is seeking general damages in excess of $25 million.
Additionally, he is seeking exemplary, punitive and/or aggravated damages in excess of the same amount over the statements he said Bascom made against him during his Facebook broadcast back in August.
In late August, businessman Azruddin Mohamed of Mohamed’s Enterprise, filed a more than $200 million suit against Bascom who he said defamed him regarding allegations about the killing of Ricardo Fagundes.
Two weeks earlier, Bascom went public with bombshell corruption allegations.
Following Bascom’s Facebook video which was subsequently deleted, but which he nonetheless made clear he was standing by, Mohamed’s Enterprise and Superintendent of Police Mitchell Caesar demanded a retraction, public apology and monetary compensation, threatening lawsuits in the alternative.
In response to Bascom’s allegations, Mohamed had said that one of his competitors in the gold industry – who he did not name – is the driving force behind the allegations levelled against him and other members of the Guyana Police Force by Police Sergeant Bascom.
In a statement, issued on his Team Mohamed’s Facebook page, Mohamed had said that Bascom and the gold dealer share close relations since the former was integral in the setting up of a security service for the latter.
Describing himself in his statement of claim (SoC) as a devout Muslim with an unblemished record, Richmond said that Bascom has sought to implicate him in events of the night that Fagundes was shot and killed.
Richmond also complains in his claim of Bascom laying allegations at his feet of a cover-up and of him (Richmond), calling and intimidating and offering bribes to Bascom not to investigate the murder.
According to Richmond, none of the allegations are true.
Like Mohamed, Richmond whose attorney is also Naresh Poonai, is asking the Court to grant an injunction restraining Bascom from making any further related utterances.
