SWISS House cambio owner Farouk Razac and his beauty queen wife, Carolan Lynch, appeared again yesterday, before Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys.
Attorney-at-law Mr. Nigel Hughes, appearing for them, said the Defence was prepared for the trial to commence yesterday but Mr. Deneashwar Nauth, prosecuting, said he only recently received the file from the chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and was not in a position to proceed.
Nauth, however, asked that the indictable offences be tried summarily and both Razac and Lynch pleaded not guilty when the charges were read over to them.
It was the second time, since November 13, that the couple appeared and the two were told to return on January 4 to be served with statements.
The Razacs were arrested after a Police raid at their home and the husband was charged with having four 9 mm magazines, being components of a firearm, at Lot 106 Ireng Place, Bel Air Park, Georgetown.
He is also charged with unlawfully having a ‘Beretta’ automatic pistol and 120 rounds of 9mm ammunition.
Razac was granted $1M bail and Lynch, jointly accused of the same offences, is free, too, on a $500,000 bond.
Rhonda Gomes, the other woman charged after Police found a cache of arms and ammunition at her Festival City home, also in the city, the same day of the raid on the Razacs, had the indictable charges against her taken summarily, too.
Gomes was sentenced to four years nine months imprisonment.