| A Guyanese pilot charged with attempting to smuggle more than US$600,000 ($120M) in cash abroad his jet, en route to Guyana, has been granted a delay in his plea hearing.Khamraj LallAfter changing his plea to guilty last month, Captain Khamraj Lall was set to face a plea hearing in a Puerto Rico court yesterday.However, last week he applied to the court for a postponement stating that he had to be out of the jurisdiction.As a result, US Magistrate Judge,Brad Richards Red Wings Jersey, Bruce McGiverin, granted an order for the plea hearing to be reset in three weeks time, on June 29.Lall in his application said, that he had to be out from the jurisdiction between June 5 and June 13.Last month, US Prosecutors started the final process of seizing more than US$400,000 in cash from bank accounts and two planes belonging to Lall.The US$442,743.59 was frozen in accounts at Wells Fargo bank,NFL Jerseys Cheap China, Citibank and Morgan Chase Bank, after investigators zeroed in on Lall following his spectacular arrest.According to court documents filed last month in the Puerto Rican court, Prosecutors have also asked that seized properties owned or controlled by Lall in Ringwood, New Jersey; Citra, Florida and Hamptonburgh, New York,Deion Sanders Falcons Jersey, along with a 2013 Lexus GX wagon be turned over to the state.In late April, Lall agreed to a plea deal with the US authorities with the hearing expected shortly in the Puerto Rico court where he was initially arraigned.Lall, who owns Kaylees Gas Station in Coverden, East Bank Demerara, was arrested by airport authorities in Puerto Rico in November, after his jet made a stop to refuel,Andre Branch Dolphins Jersey, on its way to Guyana.Stashed in different parts of the plane was more than US$600,NFL Jerseys Cheap,000 that Prosecutors say was not declared by Lall. He reportedly took responsibility for the cash at the time of arrest. On board were his father and another person.The pilot, who also owns a limousine service in Guyana, had flown President Donald Ramotar on occasions on the private jet. His company, Exec Jet Club, has a private hangar at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport. There were swirling questions over the operations of the hangar and its accessibility.Government had denied that it granted the company any special privileges, and said that the operations were in keeping with regulations. Exec Jet has reportedly also closed its Gainesville, Florida Office because of the troubles.In addition to charges related to bulk cash smuggling, Lall is in deep trouble with the US authorities, who by law can seize properties that are linked to illegal transactions.As Puerto Rico is a territory of the US, the country’s tax body, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), had stepped into the matter, going after his assets.Two weeks after he was arrested in Puerto Rico, US tax authorities, on December 8, filed a civil case in New Jersey. They were able to seize US$442,743.59 from accounts controlled by Lall and his companies. This is in addition to the US$600,000 that was found on the jet in Puerto Rico, and which is subject to seizure too.Investigators, apparently working on information, started tracking Lall’s deposits to accounts held at Wells Fargo, Citibank and JP Morgan, and found startling evidence that between April 2011 and September 2014, the pilot and family members deposited an astounding US$6,324,411.41 (G$1.3B). There were over a thousand transactions.The IRS believes that a scheme was devised where Lall and others deliberately deposited less than US$10,000 each time in attempts not to trigger suspicion by banks which are mandated to report transactions above that amount.Lall’s wife,Cheap Jerseys Free, Nadinee and mother Joyce, were named in the transactions. |
