A Guyanese na­tion­al was grant­ed bail in the sum of $15,000 by a Jus­tice of the Peace (JP) af­ter he was charged with one count of Pos­ses­sion of a Forged Doc­u­ment.

Siyad Afzal Ma­hamad, 36, who re­sides in Fe­lic­i­ty, was grant­ed bail by JP Kar­ran Nan­coo on June 7, 2023.

He is to ap­pear be­fore a Port of Spain Mag­is­trate on Ju­ly 6, 2023.

Po­lice re­ports in­di­cate that on No­vem­ber 2, 2022, a man pre­sent­ed to the Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion, a Cit­i­zen­ship of Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go Cer­tifi­cate, in sup­port of his ap­pli­ca­tion for a Trinidad and To­ba­go pass­port.

The doc­u­ment was ac­cept­ed as gen­uine, but up­on ver­i­fi­ca­tion, it was dis­cov­ered to be forged and a re­port was made to the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion In­ves­ti­ga­tions Bu­reau (ACIB).

In­ves­ti­ga­tions were con­duct­ed in­to the mat­ter be­tween June 1,

2023 and June 7, 2023, by of­fi­cers led by ASP (Ag.) Bry­on Daniel of the ACIB.

A male sus­pect was ar­rest­ed fol­low­ing the ex­e­cu­tion of a search war­rant at his home where sev­er­al doc­u­ments were found and seized.

Ma­hamad was charged by WPC Thomas, al­so of ACIB, on June 7, 2023, fol­low­ing ad­vice re­ceived from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Roger Gas­pard SC, on that same date.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was su­per­vised by Snr. Supt. Andy Tee­warie and Supt. Wayne Ab­bott and al­so in­clud­ed W/In­sp. Weaver-Ali, In­sp. Dick, Sgt. Ho­sein, Cpls Sealey and Pitt, W/Cpl Brown and PCs Legall, Sub­ran, Weaver and Serville, all of ACIB.