![]() Mingo also faces four charges alleging that he misconducted himself in public office by failing to disclose the number of votes that were counted during the elections. Yers was slapped with two counts of misconduct in public office. Lowenfield was slapped with three counts of misconduct in public office and three counts of forgery, while M Lowenfield, Myers and Mingo are currently facing multiple criminal charges related to alleged attempts to rig the Maelections. ![]() Crime Chief, Wendell Blanhum, had related to this newspaper that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) would be instituting two additional charges of conspiracy to defraud against Lowenfield, Myers, and Mingo. On Tuesday, Lowenfield, Mingo and Myers were called into the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) at Eve Leary, Kingston, Georgetown. The trio was not in court when the matter was called and as a result, Principal Magistrate Isaacs-Marcus issued three summons before adjourning the matter to Jat 11:00hrs. The charge alleges that between Maand Augat Georgetown, they conspired with each other, together with former APNU+AFC Coalition Minister and current Chair of the People’s National Congress, Volda Lawrence Coalition activist, Carol Smith-Joseph Sherfern February, Enrique Livan, Denise Bobb-Cummings, Michelle Miller and others, to defraud the electors of Guyana by declaring a false account of votes for the MaGeneral and Regional Elections. The matter was called in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus. They are all accused of inflating the results of Region Four – Guyana’s largest voting district – to give the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) Coalition a majority win at the March 2, 2020, polls when in fact, the PPP/C had won by 15,000 more votes.The three embattled employees of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), who are already facing multiple elections fraud charges, yesterday failed to appear in court to answer two joint conspiracy charges. Mingo is currently charged with four counts of Misconduct in Public Office, while People’s National Congress Chairperson, Volda Lawrence and Opposition activist, Carol Joseph are also before the court on electoral fraud charges.Īlso, GECOM clerks, Denise Bobb-Cummings and Michelle Miller and GECOM Elections Officer Shefern February and Information Technology Officer Enrique Livan are also charged. Lowenfield is currently before the court with three counts of Misconduct in Public Office, and three counts of Forgery while Myers with two counts of Misconduct in Public Office. As such, the Magistrate issued a summons for their appearance on June 29. On June 9, the case was first called before Magistrate Isaacs-Marcus, but the trio was not present in court. ![]() The trio was represented by attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes and Associates the matter is adjourned until September 14, 2021. The charges alleged that between March 2 and August 2, 2020, at Georgetown, they conspired with each other and with Volda Lawrence, Carol Smith-Joseph, Sherfern February, Enrique Livan, Denise Bobb- Cummings, Michelle Miller and others to defraud the electors of Guyana by declaring a false account of votes for the March 2, 2020, General and Regional Elections The trio appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and were not required to plea to the joint charges. Embattled Chief Elections Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Keith Lowenfield his deputy, Roxanne Myers, and Region Four Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo, were on Tuesday released on $100,000 bail on two new charges of conspiracy to defraud electors during the March 2, 2020, General and Regional Elections.
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