POLICE Prosecutor Bharat Mangru on Friday requested that the case against Carvil Duncan be re-opened, so that additional evidence could be included. Duncan, a former Director of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), is accused of stealing from the company. City Magistrate Leron Daly accepted the prosecutor’s application and the case was adjourned to October 13.
Magistrate Daly, who is presiding over the trial, was slated to hand down her decision last month after the prosecution had closed its case. However, the decision was delayed after Duncan’s lawyer, Glenn Hanoman, requested that the case be re-opened to allow him to make his submission. This application was deferred by the magistrate.
Duncan is facing charges that he and another, on March 31st, 2015, at Georgetown, conspired to steal $984,900, which is the property of GPL. It is also alleged that Duncan and another conspired to steal $27,757,547, between May 7th and May 8th, 2015. That money is also the property of GPL.
The charges against the accused stem from payments that were made by former GPL Deputy Chief Executive Aeshwar Deonarine and Duncan to themselves and which were uncovered by a forensic audit that was commissioned after the APNU+AFC government entered office last year. The money allegedly stolen by Duncan represents retroactive payments for his time on the GPL board.