Businesswoman accused of demanding $$$ by menace
Natasha Singh
Natasha Singh

A 45-year-old businesswoman who is charged with demanding money from a 72-year-old man by menace on Friday appeared before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly and was released on $60,000 bail.

Natasha Singh of Crane, West Coast Demerara, denied that on June 18 at Georgetown, she demanded with menace the sum of $200,000 from Mohammed Yusuf with intent to steal.
The mother of four was represented by attorney-at-law Everton Lammy-Singh. The lawyer requested that his client be released on self-bail on the grounds that she was the sole breadwinner for her family.

Police Prosecutor Sanj Singh did not disclose the facts surrounding the case, neither did he object to bail. The businesswoman was granted $60,000 bail and will make her next court appearance on July 20.

The Guyana Chronicle understands that both parties were known to each other. According to reports, Singh had threatened to arrest the elderly man after harassing him on several occasions and identified herself as a police officer.

On the day in question, it is alleged that the woman went to Yusuf’s home and demanded money. After the man told her that he did not have any money, he was placed in a car and taken away by the woman.

The woman then confiscated the elderly man’s cell phone and personal documents and told him if he handed over $200,000, he would get his freedom. Singh then used Yusuf’s phone and called his son. The son was told that he would have to pay the money for his father’s release.

However, the son called the Criminal Investigations Department and the woman was arrested by ranks. Her alleged kidnapping plot was therefore foiled.

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