Civil Police in Brazil are now asking the family of kidnapped businessman, Mohamed Khan for dental records to compare them with those from a body they found near Boa Vista last Saturday.

However, Khan’s relatives are adamant that the body is not that of Khan even though civil police still think otherwise.

Yesterday two members of Guyana’s anti-kidnapping squad, along with relatives of Khan, travelled to Brazil to provide records of his fingerprints to compare them with those of the body. Up to press time they had not returned and Linda Khan, wife of the Lethem hotel owner, advised this newspaper that it was very unlikely that the team would have returned last evening.

Stabroek News was informed yesterday afternoon by a source in Brazil that the records of the fingerprints were not of good enough quality to be compared with the body because the family had sent them through the fax machine.

Meanwhile, in other developments a source in Brazil told Stabroek News yesterday that Paulo Cesar `Buckley’, one of the four men who allegedly kidnapped Khan, was born in Lethem but raised in Bom Fin, Brazil. He has been a member of the Civil Police for 15 years.

It is now thirteen days since Khan, who is the owner of the Savannah Guest House in Lethem, was taken off a 52-seat bus as it was heading for Manaus. Three men, all dressed in federal police uniforms ordered him into a car and they drove off in the direction of Boa Vista. The abductors had made contact with Khan’s family and demanded $5M for his release. The four police officers in custody are Domingo Pereira de Aquino, Adail Rodrigues Borges known as `Spider’, Francisco Guimaranes known as `Hawk’ and Cesar.

The case has caused an uproar in the relatively quiet state of Roraima with the media issuing news flashes around the clock. Many are shocked that the civil police are alleged to be involved.