Bandits in multi-million-dollar robbery
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The police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 11:30hrs yesterday at Bel Air Gardens , Georgetown, during which businesswoman Annie Ramsood, 32, was attacked and robbed by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.

Investigations revealed that Annie Ramsood, along with her reputed husband Malcolm Panday, three children and domestic employees, were at home when the men entered the building.  However, Panday managed to slip away and summoned the police from a neighbouring residence.

Meanwhile, the two men forced Annie Ramsood to open a safe from where they took an undisclosed sum of cash, comprising local and foreign currency, and escaped in a waiting motor car bearing registration plates PKK 3700.

The police responded promptly to the report and subsequently intercepted the motor vehicle in the compound of the Ocean Spray Hotel, Vlissengen Road, Georgetown.

Four men exited the vehicle and one of them opened fire on the police who returned fire. Three of the men were arrested and an unlicensed 9mm. pistol with 8 rounds, along with a sum of cash were recovered. The other man managed to escape.

Further investigations led to the interception of motor car PMM 9436 at Front Road, West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, and the arrest of three other men and the recovery of a further sum of cash.

The six men are in police custody assisting with the investigations and the two motor vehicles used by them have been detained by the police.

Annie Ramsood related her story to the Guyana Chronicle.
She said at the time of the incident, she was in the house with her two children when one of the staff noticed “two strange looking men walking around the yard”.

“I was inside with my children. Then one of the staff told me that two men just walked in the yard and was calling for someone, so she went outside to find out what they wanted,” Ramsood recalled.

She said, “The men dragged her into the house and told everyone to be quiet or we will kill everyone here.”

The distraught woman said she then took her children and sat quietly on the floor with the rest of her workers.

“One of the men then started asking questions; he wanted to know who was the owner of the house…after nobody didn’t answer him, he threatened to kill us, again.”

A fearful Ramsood said that with no other choice left, she gave the men some of the money. However, “one of them turn to me and asked me for the code to the safe where the rest of the money was and I told them the person that got the code was not at home.”

“The Indian guy, he dragged me into the room and was about to beat me with the gun in my head and the other boy that was with him told him not to do it, and then he was shouting and saying that she got to give us the money or we will beat her.”

A tearful Ramsood said that in an effort to save her life, she punched in the code and allowed the men to gather all the money, which amounted to several million dollars.