Charges against Eton Cordis dropped
Stabroek News
August 17, 2002
The Guyana government has abandoned its prosecution of Eton Cordis, the ex-US embassy employee who was implicated in the Thomas Carroll visa sale ring.
Cordis' attorney, Basil Williams, told Stabroek News that the case brought by the state against his client was quietly abandoned for want of prosecution. Stabroek News understands that the state was unable to produce the original evidence against him as this was in the possession of the US Justice Department. Photocopies would not have been admitted in evidence.
US federal investigators, in the presence of the local police, had interviewed Cordis about his role in Carroll's activities and he was later taken before the court to answer allegations about his involvement in the scheme. He was the only one of the several persons questioned who was taken before the court.