Geisha Kow­lessar

The T&T Gov­ern­ment has ob­tained an ex­tra­di­tion war­rant for Dutch na­tion­al Amar­nath Jag­mo­han, who is want­ed on four counts of ut­ter­ing forged doc­u­ments and one count of pos­ses­sion of coun­ter­feit cur­ren­cy in an­oth­er ju­ris­dic­tion.The Cen­tral Au­thor­i­ty, un­der the di­rec­tion of At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan, was suc­cess­ful in ob­tain­ing a war­rant of com­mit­tal for Jag­mo­han.

Chief Mag­is­trate Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar, sit­ting in the Port-of-Spain Eighth Court, yes­ter­day is­sued an or­der com­mit­ting Jag­mo­han to cus­tody to await his ex­tra­di­tion to Sin­ga­pore.It is al­leged that some­time in May 2003, Jag­mo­han vis­it­ed sev­er­al money­len­ders in Sin­ga­pore and at­tempt­ed to change coun­ter­feit eu­ros for Sin­ga­pore dol­lars. He was al­so found in pos­ses­sion of coun­ter­feit eu­ros.

Jag­mo­han was charged in Sin­ga­pore but be­fore his tri­al he fled the coun­try while on bail. He was held in T&T on Jan­u­ary 29 this year un­der a pro­vi­sion­al war­rant of ar­rest.Jag­mo­han was rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­ney David West, who, dur­ing the com­mit­tal pro­ceed­ings, filed an un­suc­cess­ful habeas cor­pus ap­pli­ca­tion on his client's be­half and al­so made no-case sub­mis­sion.

The Cen­tral Au­thor­i­ty, rep­re­sent­ed by Jagdeo Singh, Ne­tram Kow­lessar, Re­nee Charles and Ky­lene De­osingh, how­ev­er, de­feat­ed those ap­pli­ca­tions and ob­tained the ex­tra­di­tion war­rant.The au­thor­i­ty has been busy on the ex­tra­di­tion front this year.

It was al­so suc­cess­ful in ex­tra­dit­ing Doreen Alexan­der to the Unit­ed States on March 31, 2013, to face charges of the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of Bal­ram "Ba­lo" Ma­haraj. On Au­gust, 23, 2013, Keron Pierre was al­so ex­tra­dit­ed to the US to face charges re­lat­ing to a triple homi­cide and at­tempt­ed mur­der.On Feb­ru­ary 1, 2013, Andy Nel­son plead­ed guilty in the Unit­ed King­dom to two charges for con­spir­a­cy to sup­ply and im­port co­caine. Nel­son was ex­tra­dit­ed to the Unit­ed King­dom on Sep­tem­ber 14, 2012.

Ram­lo­gan praised the Cen­tral Au­thor­i­ty for its hard work and ded­i­ca­tion yes­ter­day, say­ing the unit con­tin­ues to suc­cess­ful­ly per­form the crit­i­cal role of a key mech­a­nism in stem­ming the surge of in­ter­na­tion­al crime and main­tain­ing the rule of law.