NBS officials charged with false imprisonment

Three officials from the New Building Society (NBS) were on Wednesday charged with eight counts of false imprisonment.

Anil Kishun, Anil Beharry and Deka Tularam appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore where the charges were read to them for confining eight persons from leaving the Bank’s Avenue of the Republic Headquarters on January 23rd.

Members of the public were not allowed inside of the courtroom while the matter was being presided over.

According to reports, on the day in question a party of lawyers representing former Chief Executive Officer of the NBS Maurice Arjoon, in the company of High Court Marshals, moved into the NBS headquarters to seize the company’s assets in a bid to recoup the $59 million pension awarded to Arjoon.

NBS immediately locked its doors to the institution, trapping among others, a lawyer and a court-marshal.

Those held against their will were Shawn Kalicharan, Alex Green, Goodish Singh, Patrick Higgins, Martin Brown, Gina Arjoon, Ganesh Hira and Joseph Allen.

After a six-hour standoff, a cheque to the tune of $59.3M was made out to Arjoon after the intervention of Police.

The three NBS officials pleaded not guilty to the eight charges and were released on self-bail.

The matter was transferred to Magistrate Dylon Bess for March 26.