(Demerara Waves) – The head of the Guyana Police Force’s Special Branch department, Senior Superintendent Prem Narine, on Thursday admitted to a number of inconsistencies in his written statement on his involvement in collecting documents related to the United States’ (US) extradition request for city businessmen Azruddin and Nazar Mohamed.
Under cross-examination by defence lawyer Siand Dhurjon, Mr Narine at one point described a factual inaccuracy as a “typographic error” and in another instance sought to include an omitted sentence as part of his explanation.
In the first instance, Mr Dhurjon asked Mr Narine whether it was true that he had received the Authority To Proceed (ATP) from the Minister of Home Affairs, Oneidge Walrond, on October 31, 2025, in his statement on November 11, 2025 to which he responded that “what’s in the statement is not (sic) was supposed to have read…it’s a typographic error.”
Secondly, the lawyer told the police officer that he recorded in his statement that he uplifted the request for extradition from the Minister of Foreign Affairs in relation to the request made by the US.
“Not only did you say you received the ATP, the authority to proceed from the Home Affairs Minister. You said in your written statement that you received the request for extradition from the Minister of Foreign Affairs,” Mr Dhurjon said.
