Rawl Richards Haynes, a Police Corporal of Lot 2 Hydronie East Bank Essequibo was on Thursday charged with three counts of Money Laundering, in contravention of Section (3) (1) (a) of the Anti Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism Act Chapter 10:11.
The matters were heard at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court, where he appeared before Magistrate Zamena Ali Seepaul and was not required to plea to the indictable charges.
Two of the charges had similar particulars which stated that on April 7, 2020, he converted the sum $7,000,000 and $1,000,000 Guyana dollars for part payment of properties located at Lots 284 and 285 Block 8 Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo respectively, knowing or having reason to believe that the said sum of moneys is the proceed of crime with the aim of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the cash.
He was granted bail in the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($ 200,000) on the two charges and the matters were adjourned to 2023-01-17
The other charge read that he, on August 22, 2019, converted the sum of 2,900,000 for payment of one Toyota Allion motor car # PYY 357, knowing or having reason to believe that the said sum of money is the proceeds of crime with the aim of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the cash.
He was granted bail in the sum of $100,000 and the matter was transferred to the Wales Magistrate’s Court for 2023-01-25.
He was represented by Attorney at Law Dexter Todd. In March 2021 Haynes along with Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police Kevin Adonis, Sergeants, Michael Corbin and Jermaine Fraser, were charged by SOCU with conspiracy to defraud the Guyana Police Force of $19 million. He was also charged with larceny by Public Officer.
This was after it was discovered by the Guyana Police Force that millions of dollars were fraudulently stolen allegedly between several senior and junior officers. Hence the cases were referred to the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) for investigation and prosecution. Several senior and junior officers were charged and placed before the courts for several fraud related offences and conspiracies to defraud the Guyana Police Force. Rawle Haynes has been under the radar since 2020.
