CHARGES are expected to be laid against 50-year-old Milaimi Alli, who was arrested on Thursday evening in relation to the murder of her husband Ramzan Alli on July 12, 2009.

She was apprehended upon arrival at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport after police, earlier in the week, issued a wanted bulletin for her arrest.

It is alleged that she paid over $5M to her lover to facilitate her husband’s murder. The woman is currently at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) where she is being questioned.

On July 12, 2009, the body of the fuel dealer was found in the trunk of a rented white Toyota Carina AT 212 on the Railway Embankment in the vicinity of Coldingen.

On March 28, 2019, Zaheed Mitchell, a 38-year-old driver of Foulis, East Coast Demerara (ECD), appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, charged with murder of Ramzan Alli.

The indictment stated that Mitchell and others murdered Alli between July 11 and 12, 2009. He was remanded to prison until April 15. It was during investigations that Alli’s name surfaced; hence, an arrest warrant was issued for her arrest.

Back in 2009, the businessman’s body was found by relatives who had launched a search for him after several calls to his mobile went unanswered.

A post-mortem examination revealed that he died from asphyxiation. It is alleged that Alli’s wife ordered his death on the same day his family was having a religious service for his brother, Akbar Alli, who was gunned down on July 24, 2008.

The father of two had reportedly left his home to buy supplies for the aforementioned religious function.

A relative eventually spotted the car on the Railway Embankment. The relative reportedly saw blood dripping from the trunk. He then forced the trunk open and found the body.

Detectives had suspected that Ramzan Alli was killed somewhere else and brought in his car to the embankment.

While his limbs were not bound, a plastic bag was duct-taped over his head.

There was what appeared to be a skid mark on the parapet near where Alli’s body was discovered, leading investigators to believe that the killers fled the scene in another car.