{"id":4220,"date":"2010-08-21T08:52:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T12:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2010-10-02T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T11:54:16","slug":"drug-den-for-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4220","title":{"rendered":"Drug Den for Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Nalinee Seelal and Alexander Bruzual<br \/>\nSaturday, August 21 2010<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4220\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/guns.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' title='Guns' alt='Guns' \/><\/a>A day after they made one of the biggest weapons seizures, police described the Valsayn mansion of late millionaire contractor Hafeez Karamath as a drug den for the rich; a factory for the manufacture of exotic high-end hallucinogens.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators estimate the mansion, located on a one acre property in the upscale neighbourhood of Palm Road, Valsayn, is worth more than $12 million.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThey reported that \u201cpreferred clients\u201d visited the mansion day and night. A ten-foot wall, which has a row of lights all around it, surrounds the compound which had a fleet of heavily tinted Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs).<\/p>\n<p>Residents believe the compound housed a casino which operated daily, and included armed security and a limousine chauffeur service to take clients home after heavy gambling.<\/p>\n<p>It was purely by accident that the police stumbled upon a cache of arms, ammunition and drugs during a search carried out on Thursday at Karamath\u2019s residence as part of the ongoing probe into alleged corrupt activities at the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (Udecott).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,126163.html\" title=\"Drug den for rich\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/Documents__guns__drugs_seized-101208529.html\">&#8230;Documents, guns, drugs seized<\/a><br \/>\nAttorney General Anand Ramlogan yesterday said the police may have made a huge breakthrough in their investigations into the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (UDeCOTT). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/news\/crime\/2010\/08\/21\/six-relatives-face-gun-ammo-drug-charges\">&#8230;Six relatives face gun, ammo, drug charges<\/a><br \/>\nSix relatives of late contractor Hafeez Karamath have been charged with possession of guns, ammunition and dangerous drugs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,126172.html\">&#8230;HKL and Tarouba<\/a><br \/>\nAmid the investigations into the discovery of 18 firearms at the mansion of deceased businessman Hafeez Karamath, it cannot be forgotten that the officers of the Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau (ACIB) originally went to the Valsayn residence in search of documents relating to alleged corrupt activities involving Karamath&#8217;s construction company and Udecott. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nalinee Seelal and Alexander Bruzual Saturday, August 21 2010 A day after they made one of the biggest weapons seizures, police described the Valsayn mansion of late millionaire contractor Hafeez Karamath as a drug den for the rich; a factory for the manufacture of exotic high-end hallucinogens. Investigators estimate the mansion, located on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4220\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drug Den for Rich<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,305,1,186,7,26,8],"tags":[48,44,523,82,1020],"class_list":["post-4220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-drug-trade","category-general-tt","category-law","category-politics","category-udecott","category-violence","tag-calder-hart","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-hafeez-karamath","tag-patrick-manning","tag-udecott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}