| Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said that the serial numbers on the passports found in the possession of a jailed Indonesian tax official and his family were not Guyana passport numbers.“We have no such numbers,” he told this newspaper yesterday.The Crime Chief was responding to reports in the media that Indonesia’s National Police had confirmed that five falsified Guyana passports bearing photos of tax graft convict Gayus H. Tambunan, his wife Milana Anggareni, and their three children, were made available and officially registered in Guyana.Guyanese officials had reportedly said that from all indications the passports were fakes.In an invited comment, the Crime Chief said that local police are unaware that the passports originated from Guyana, and were not involved in any Interpol probe in the matter.“Guyana has not been contacted by any law enforcement agency from any part of the world in connection with that matter,” the Crime Chief told Kaieteur News.The “Gayus” passport has the name of Yosep Morris, born on May 9 1979, and is valid from July 23, 2007 to July 22, 2012,Cheap NFL Jerseys Free Shipping, while the “Milana” passport bears the name of Ann Morris, born on February 6, 1979, valid from July 18, 2007 until July 17, 2012.The place of issue for both documents was listed as ‘Passport Office Georgetown, Guyana”.Late last month, Indonesian authorities announced that they were sending investigators to Guyana to check the authenticity of the passports.“The passports [officially] exist,” National Police Chief, Detective Commander General Ito Sumardi had stressed.The police previously found pictures of an assortment of five Guyana passports bearing false identification and photographs of Tambunan and his family, in an email belonging to suspect A. The email had been sent by another suspect, US national John Jerome Grice. It added that based on information, Grice had not handed over the falsified passports because Tambunan had not paid the US$300,000 fee required to make them.“[The passports] had not been used yet,” Ito said, as reported by kompas.com.Grice had previously helped Tambunan obtain a falsified passport using the alias Sony Laksono, for a fee of US$100,000.Grice is now wanted by the National Police and Interpol.Last month, Indonesia jailed the lowly tax official in a high profile case in that country for bribery.Police had said that convicted Civil Servant had acquired fake Guyana passports and from all indications was planning to come here to escape prosecution.Tambunan was accused of amassing millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains and of bribing judges.The News agency reported that in addition to a seven-year sentence that exposed rampant Government graft, Tambunan was also fined 300 million rupiah (US$30,000) after being found guilty of corruption. |
