Mingo and assistant arrested on elections forgery allegations

Police ranks Tuesday arrested the Returning Officer (RO) of Region Four, Clairmont Mingo, and his assistant, Carolyn Duncan, on elections forgery charges. Mingo’s arrest comes just five days after the Department of Public Prosecution (DPP) announced that a comprehensive investigation will commence into allegations of electoral fraud committed by Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, and others. According to information reaching this publication, the RO of Region Four was arrested at around 15:45 hrs at his home located in Abary, Region Five. Sources told Kaieteur News that Mingo was escorted by the ranks to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) at Eve Leary, Kingston where up to press time, he remained in police custody.

Sometime later, Kaieteur News was reliably informed that Mingo’s assistant, Duncan, was arrested too. Information obtained by Kaieteur

News suggested that hours after Mingo was grilled by investigators, a decision was made to arrest Duncan as well. Police sources were unable to verify whether Mingo and his assistant will be detained for the normal 72 hours or whether a decision will be taken to release them on bail. However, Kaieteur was able to confirm that the pair’s arrest was in relation to serious allegations made of document forgery with the intent to deliver fraudulent results of the March 2 General and Regional Elections. Attorney-at-law and member of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C), Charles Ramson, had filed private criminal charges against Mingo and the People National Congress Reform’s (PNCR) Chairman, Volda Lawrence on March 13. Those charges are in relation to a pair of fraudulent elections declarations for Region Four.

(Kaieteur News)