A TEAM of Iranian law enforcement officials is working along with Guyana police in the continuing probe of the kidnapping of an Iranian cleric in Georgetown earlier this month.
Police Commissioner, Mr. Winston Felix yesterday told the Chronicle the four-member team from Iran was reviewing the work done so far by local police who “are pursuing some leads”.
“They are working along with the Guyana police”, he said, adding that the Iranians “are gathering information on what has been done so far”.
The Iran team arrived here earlier this week with the Iran Ambassador to Venezuela and Felix said they have met several times on the kidnapping probe.
Iranian scholar Mohammed Hassan Ibrahimi, 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.
There has been no ransom demand from the kidnappers and Ibrahami’s pregnant wife has been anxiously awaiting word on her husband.