PARAMDEO Victor, a 37-year-old resident of Rosignol, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice), is currently in Police custody assisting with the investigation of a staged multimillion-dollar robbery on Wednesday.

According to information from the Guyana Police Force (GPF), Victor visited the Mahaica Police Station around 12:30 hrs on Wednesday to report that he was robbed of $10,250,000 by three men with guns wearing ski masks and dark clothing at Unity, Mahaica Old Road, around 11:00 hrs.

“Victor told the Police he was driving and taking the cash to Rosignol after receiving it from a Cambio in King Street, Georgetown. He claimed the gunmen braced him off the road with another car before robbing him. He claimed the money belonged to a jeweller from Rosignol, and he was transporting the cash for that person,” the police said.

After being questioned by the ranks of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), it was suspected that Victor’s claims were fictitious, which led to further questioning.
The man later confessed that he had made a false report, and he’d actually staged the robbery to steal the money from the owner he was transporting it for.

Victor then took the ranks to a certain area of his car and removed the $2 million that he had hidden there. He further revealed that the outstanding amount was with his accomplice at Ithaca Village, West Bank Berbice.
Around 19:00 hrs on Wednesday evening, however, police travelled with Victor to Ithaca, then back to his residence at Rosignol and located $6 million cash in a black plastic bag stashed in a washing machine.
Police are looking for the alleged accomplice, Cornell Taylor, also known as ‘Rastaman’, as well as the remaining cash.