Police arrest Rosignol resident for multimillion-dollar robbery

PARAMDEO Victor, 37, a resident of Rosignol, District Five (Mahaica-Berbice), is currently being held in police custody assisting with the investigation of a multimillion-dollar robbery committed on Wednesday.

According to information received from the Guyana Police Force (GPF), Victor visited the Mahaica Police Station at around 12:30pm on Wednesday to report the theft of $10,250,000 by three armed men wearing balaclavas and dark clothing at Mahaica Old Road, Unity. . Around 11:00.

Victor told police that after collecting the money from a Cambio on King Street, Georgetown, he drove and took the money to Rosignol. He claimed the gunmen drove him off the road in another car before robbing him. “The police claimed that the money belonged to a jeweler from Rosignol and that he was carrying the money on behalf of that person,” he said.

After being questioned by the ranks of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Victor’s claims were suspected to be fabricated, leading to further interrogation.
The man later admitted that he had made a false report and that he had actually staged the robbery to steal the money from the owner to whom he had transferred it.

Victor then took the desks to a specific area of ​​his car and removed the $2 million he had hidden there. He also disclosed that the unpaid sum belonged to his accomplice in Ithaca Village, West Bank Berbice.
But around 7pm on Wednesday evening, police drove with Victor to Ithaca, then returned to his home in Rosignol and found $6 million in cash in a black plastic bag hidden in the washing machine.
Police are looking for his alleged accomplice, Cornell Taylor, also known as ‘Rastaman’, and the remaining money.