Assistant accountant charged with $5M theft at GECOM

Just over a week after reports surfaced of a $5 million theft at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has instituted charges against 30-year-old Dikimbie Gittens, an assistant accountant of Onderneeming, Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara.

The money reportedly went missing between September 15 and 16, 2025, from GECOM’s Secretariat at Barrack and Fort Streets, Kingston, Georgetown.
After the Police were called in, Gittens was arrested on Monday, September 22, and made his appearance before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, where a larceny by clerk or servant charge was read to him.
He was not required to plead to the charge and was remanded to prison until October 15, 2025.
Two days ago, the Police stated that they had recovered a small amount of the stolen $5 million in the possession of an assistant accounts clerk, who has since been taken into custody.
On Monday, the GPF said it had launched an investigation into the theft, with several employees being questioned.