The Guyana government has not yet been apprised by the US authorities of the name of the "uniformed police inspector," in the plea agreement with Halim Khan, as being implicated in the visa sale ring it broke up last year.

Khan and Thomas Carroll, the US diplomat who masterminded the scheme, pleaded guilty in a US District Court in Chicago to a number of charges related to the sale of non-immigrant visas. They are to be sentenced in January and February respectively, but Carroll has already forfeited some US$1 million in cash, gold bars and vehicles and Khan has agreed to forfeit US$250,000. The forfeiture will be in addition to the prison sentence they will receive and any other fine for which the law provides.

Secretary to the Cabinet, Dr Roger Luncheon, told Stabroek News that the government would have to make a formal approach to the US authorities for the transcript of the proceedings, which would include the persons named under oath.

He stressed that while Khan did implicate a number of persons, including the police officer, in the interest of justice that information should come from the court.

However, Luncheon undertook to provide the media with the names of the police officers who had been invited to the US in connection with the investigation when pressed for information about the other ranks who assisted the police with their investigations into the visa sale ring.

He said that the government would have received a report from the local police team which assisted the US investigating team in conducting its investigations and undertook to ascertain whether the officers named had been the subject of any disciplinary action.