Canadian official charged in Guyana over alleged immigration racket
Monday, August 23, 2004
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): A consular
official at Canada's high commission in Guyana and a Guyanese man have been
charged in an alleged immigration racket, authorities said Friday.
Assistant Consular Officer, Varsha Brijmohan was not required to enter a plea
to the 13 separate charges of forging 13 Canadian passports with intent to
defraud when she appeared before Principal Magistrate Cecil Sullivan late
Thursday. Brijmohan allegedly forged the
travel documents between July 1 and August 16, police said.
Shawn Anthony Correia pleaded innocent to possession of 12 Canadian passports
suspected to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained.
Correia has been also charged with uttering a forged Canadian passport with
intent to defraud for the purpose of identification at an auto sales company
on August 12. The Principal Magistrate
ordered each suspect to pay 1,500 US dollars and to return to court on
September 24. Investigations continue but
Deputy Police Commissioner Henry Greene on Friday could not immediately say if
there would be more arrests. Police smashed
the Canadian passport scam after the owner of an auto-sales agency recalled
that Correia had previously given him a name different from Anthony Snow, the
name in the Canadian passport he presented.
Brijmohan, who is Guyanese and Canadian, was earlier this week suspended from
duty, after Canadian police handed her over to their Guyanese counterparts.
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