Israeli national arrested in Trinidad threatens to go
on a hunger strike
by Stephen Cummings
Caribbean Net News Trinidad Correspondent
Email: cummingscom@yahoo.co.uk
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: 26-year-old Israeli national, Vatang Agrunov, who was arrested over the weekend by officers of the Trinidad Special Anti-Crime Unit, for stealing immigration documents and forgery has threatened to go on a hunger strike.
Agrunov said he would not eat after he appeared before a Port of Spain city magistrate and was denied bail. Argunov was refused bail on the grounds that he did not have any legitimate local ties and was considered a “flight risk”. He was due to leave Trinidad on November 10.
The Israeli national was said to have been hiding out in the hills of the country’s northern range. Police found him in a wooden shack with a Trinidad and Tobago immigration stamp in his possession, which investigators say he used to falsify travel documents to overstay his time since arriving in the country some six months ago.
Both local and foreign investigators have been treating Agrunov as a possible terrorist who illegally entered the country. He was questioned on what he knew about the series of recent bombings in Port of Spain.
It was later found that he stole an immigration extension stamp and attempted to overstay his time. Further investigations revealed that Agrunov came to Trinidad after he was invited by someone through the internet.
Agrunov will remain in jail until he reappears in court on November 14.
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