Former GRA staff, Reguel Jack and police officer, Winston Small, were on Friday found guilty of Computer-related Forgery, in contravention of the Cybercrime Act.
The duo was sentenced by Magistrate Annette Singh at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
The Magistrate sentenced Small to 6 months imprisonment, while Jack was fined $100,000, to be paid in two weeks, or face 6 months imprisonment.
The prosecution stated that a Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) investigation revealed that in October 2021, Small arranged with Shaquan Caesar, a minibus conductor, who was working with Antoney Jacobs, the bus driver, that he could get a driver’s licence for him for $83,000.
According to the police, Small later told Caesar that he could use Jacobs’ licence and that he could get someone from Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to change the photograph.
The two accused (GPF photo)
As such, the conductor reportedly obtained a photograph of the bus driver’s licence and the two went to a clerk at the Maraj Building and stated that Caesar was Jacobs and had lost his licence and ID card and requested an affidavit to take to GRA to process his driver’s licence.
After obtaining the affidavit, Small then took Caesar to GRA with the affidavit, where Jack, then a GRA lodgement clerk, took Caesar’s photograph via the Licence Revenue Processing system (LRPS) and processed a driver’s licence for him in the name of Antoney Salaman Jacobs, with Jacob’s driver’s licence details.
Magistrate Singh found that the elements of the offence of Computer related Forgery were properly established, and both Small and Jack were found guilty.
Small was represented by Attorney-at-Law Clyde Forde, while Jack was represented by Attorney -at -Law, Ronald Daniels.
The prosecution comprised Attorney-at-Law and Prosecutor, David Braithwaite, Prosecutor Aaron Daniels, and Prosecutor Neville Jeffers from SOCU.
