THE Guyana Police Force has reported that the medical documents tendered by Cuban national Yuri Garcia and his Guyanese wife, Ateeka Ishmael, that they had contracted COVID-19, were falsified. The couple had been charged following investigations into a Ponzi scheme here.
Police in a release said the documents had been tendered on the couple’s behalf by their Attorney, Dexter Todd, at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court on July 27, 2021, after they had failed to appear in court to answer new charges of Conspiracy to Defraud that had been filed against them.
Further investigations are being conducted into this matter, the release noted.