POLICE Crime Chief Seelall Persaud disclosed yesterday that two persons are presently in custody assisting with investigations into the brutal weekend murders of the two gold dealers at Bartica.
He said three suspects had been held but one has since been released on station bail.
During Tuesday’s press conference, at Eve Leary, Georgetown, Police Commissioner Henry Greene had told reporters one man was being detained in connection with those crimes.
His narrative of what occurred said about 11:30 h last Sunday, the Police received a report of a double murder at Lot 84 Second Avenue, Bartica and, on arrival at the scene, they saw signs indicating that a door on the bottom flat of the two-storey building had been  forced open and the bodies of Jainarine Raghubar, 43, of  Lot 29 Fairfield, Essequibo Coast and Ramdeo Deonarine, 50, of Ruby, East Bank Essequibo, were on the floor of the kitchen.
The hands of both deceased were tied behind their backs and they were gagged with their throats slit, he related.
Greene said investigations revealed that Deonarine usually conducts business in the building and lives there whenever he is in Bartica while Raghubar, who is a partner of Ricky Ramnarine, 48, of Seventh Avenue, Bartica and owner of the building in which the bodies were found, had gone there for the two of them to conduct business.
They were last seen alive at 00:30 h in the building by Ramnarine on Sunday and the corpses were discovered after a friend of one of the dead men visited and saw bloodstains in the doorway.
Greene reported that the entire building was ransacked and Ramnarine, who operates a spare parts and equipment store there, said booty stolen from his office within included $1.3 M cash, a .32 ‘Taurus’ pistol with six rounds of ammunition, two laptop computers valued G$362,000, 100 ounces of raw gold and a ‘Rolex’ wrist watch worth US$7,500.
The Commissioner said it is also suspected that property belonging to Deonarine and Raghubar, among them a .32 revolver belonging to Deonarine, may also have been stolen when they were killed.
Post mortem examinations, conducted by Dr. Nehaul Singh, said the cause of death of the two men was haemorrhage and shock, due to incised wound to the neck.
Meanwhile, crime scene investigators have since uplifted several fingerprints from the scene, Greene said.