(Demerara Waves) – Attorney General Anil Nandlall on Thursday accepted the bulk of High Court-awarded costs in currency notes and some coins from city businessmen Azruddin and Nazar Mohamed who lost a High Court case related to their United States (US) extradition committal proceedings.
Mr Mohamed showed Demerara Waves Online News a Guyana government receipt for GY$900,500 with an outstanding balance of GY$99,500.
He said the Attorney General’s Chambers accepted up to GY$500 in coins in keeping with the Bank of Guyana Act.
The payment was transported in two wheelbarrows into the Attorney General’s Chambers’ compound on Carmichael Street after Mr Nandlall issued a formal warning that if the court costs were not paid immediately he would return to the court to seek redress to enforce the order of costs.
The Attorney General confirmed on Facebook that the small denominations of bills that Mr Mohamed paid took several hours to count, causing workers to remain past 4:30 p.m. “Public servants were forced to remain until about 5:30 p.m. to count this money. These people have to travel far distances to get home. But all of this is just fun for Azruddin Mohamed. However, he was forced to wait until all was counted! In the end, after all this clumsy fanfare, he did not pay the full sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) and will have return to pay the balance,” Mr Nandlall said.
