TWO employees of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) were among four persons arraigned before Magistrate Leron Daly in connection with the alleged forgery of two cheques from the tax agency totally $19.4 million. Those charged are Randi Gladstone, 38; Leroy Green, a 26-year-old accountant of Williams Street, Kitty and GRA employees, Ivor Dowridge, 26, of Second Street, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara, and Tooqwan Clarke, 25 of West Ruimveldt, Georgetown.
The men appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and were not required to plead to two counts of conspiracy to commit a felony.
According to the particulars of the charges, it is alleged that Gladstone, between October 28, 2020 and May 11, 2021 conspired with Green, Dowridge, Clarke, Romeschand Singh, Komalram Persaud, Devindra Moteeram, Anush Khan, Shareesa Tappin and others to forge two Bank of Guyana cheques, purporting that these were issued by the GRA’s Internal Revenue Department.

The first cheque was dated April 9, 2021 and was made out to the value of $9,550,000, while the other cheque dated April 20, 2021 was valued $9,875,000.
Magistrate Daly released Green, Dowridge and Clarke, on $600,000 bail each. Prosecutor Richard Harris strongly opposed bail for Gladstone arguing that he is before the same court for an alleged fraud committed on the Ministry of Business. The magistrate upheld the prosecutor’s objection and remanded Gladstone to prison.
The case is adjourned until July 2.
On May 18, Singh, Persaud, Moteeram, Khan and Tappin appeared before Magistrate Daly and the same charges were read to them. Everyone was released on $600,000 bail except Tappin, since she is currently serving a four-year jail sentence for another matter.