THE Guyana Police Force yesterday said it was not aware that officials from the Iranian Police Force are due here shortly to conduct investigations into the kidnapping of Iranian scholar Mohammed Hassan Ibrahimi.
The arrival of the team from Iran was announced to the media on Monday at the Guyana Islamic Trust (GIT) Secretariat by several Muslim organisations hosting a joint press conference.
At that press conference it was announced that the team was expected within the next 14 days.
Public Relations Officer of the Guyana Police Force, Assistant Superintendent John Sauers yesterday told the Guyana Chronicle that they have no information and are not aware of any person or persons coming from Iran.
He added that investigations by the anti-kidnapping squad into the abduction were going ahead assiduously and the police here were working towards returning the victim to his family.
Ibrahim called `Sheik’, Director of the International Islamic College of Advanced Studies (IICAS), was dragged from his car by two gunmen on April 2, at around 22:10 hrs after leaving the college compound, at 42B United Nations Place, Brickdam, Georgetown.
College instructor/teacher, Raymond Ali, who was in the company of the Director, was shot in the foot as he successfully escaped the kidnappers.
The Iranian cleric was reportedly forced into a getaway motorcar which sped east along Brickdam.
During the press conference Monday, a call was made for speedy progress in investigating the abduction and disappearance of Ibrahimi.
A source from the Guyana Islamic Trust Secretariat said Commissioner of Police, Mr. Winston Felix yesterday afternoon met a delegation of concerned Muslims seeking answers on the kidnapping of the Iranian and the recent police raid on the ISA Islamic School in Georgetown.
The Muslim groups had promised to give full cooperation to the Commissioner of Police during the press conference on Monday.