Davendra Rampersaud, the pharmaceutical supplier who was freed last year of supplying the Ministry of Health (MOH) with expir-ed HIV test kits, is now facing a six-count indictment in the US, which accuses him of conspiring with others to divert kits to Guyana which were paid for by USAID and earmarked for Kenya.
Rampersaud was recently arrested in the US on a January 19, 2023 arrest warrant following the release of the superseding six-count indictment. At the centre of the conspiracy that involves his company, Caribbean Medical Supplies Inc (CSMI) is that he, in collusion with others (names withheld in court documents) supplied the Ministry of Health, Guyana with HIV testing kits that the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) had paid for. The conspiracy continued even though during the period the accused were warned that what they were indulging in was illegal.
