GEORGETOWN, Guyana?A Canadian Embassy employee has been charged with fraud on suspicion of forging 12 passports. Guyanese authorities also arrested a man who is accused of using one of the fake passports.
Varsha Brijmohan, a 24-year-old Guyanese national, was suspended from her post earlier this week. She is accused of forging the Canadian passports while working as an assistant consular officer, said deputy police chief Henry Greene.Anthony Correia, 23, was charged with fraud after an attempt was made to use one of the passports to buy a car. Both pleaded not guilty to the charges. Their trials begin Sept. 24.
It was the second scandal involving the Canadian Embassy in Guyana in recent years. In the early 1990s, the Canadian government moved its consular services for Guyana to Trinidad after discovering employees were selling visas.
