| Twenty months after his brother was kidnapped and his head unceremoniously dumped near his business place, one of Farouk Kalamadeen’s siblings is still trying to find out who orchestrated the abduction and execution.Fazil Kalamadeen believes that persons have not been telling his family the truth about the circumstances surrounding his brother’s murder.In a recent interview with Kaieteur News, he claimed that one person, who was extremely close to his brother, has even tried to pin the blame on the now-dead gunman Rondell ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins.“There’s something wrong in my brother’s investigation, something lacking,” said the brother, who resides overseas.“I don’t think that everybody is telling us the truth. Who kidnapped him? Why was he kidnapped and kept for one month and why was he slaughtered?“According to what my sister-in-law say, he not involved in anything (shady). We were told that ‘Fine Man’ was involved.“When I was in Guyana the police said that Fine Man was not involved. We were told so many lies. There are a lot of things that are being hidden. I wish that somebody will come clean and tell us the truth.“Farouk is my brother and it’s hard not knowing the truth.”According to Fazil Kalamadeen, while senior Government officials had expressed concern at the recent murder of a gold mining employee at the hands of Coast Guards, no similar concern was expressed over the death of his brother, who was also in the gold mining industry.Kalamadeen, the proprietor of Jiffy Lubes, was jogging on the Houston Public Road near Industrial Site, Ruimveldt, on April 2, 2008, when a group of armed men pounced on him.The men then bundled Kalamadeen into a vehicle and drove off.On Wednesday, April 30, 2008, Kalamadeen’s headless body was found on a parapet on Cowan Street, Kingston.A few days later, his head was retrieved from a canal in North Road, a short distance from his business place.Investigators said that the businessman’s head appeared to have been surgically severed, and it was believed that he was beheaded while still alive.However, police have never stated a motive for his murder. At the time, relatives who had spoken to the media had stated that they had never received a ransom demand.During their investigations, police arrested four persons while searching a Princes Street house.Farouk Kalamadeen had taken out a $200M policy of insurance with Clico payable on his demise. His estate was named beneficiary under the policy and he was also entitled to accidental death benefit of $1.2M at the time of his death.About a month after his demise, the family attorney,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, Bibi Shadick, wrote to Clico informing of his demise and provided a copy of the death certificate.Clico subsequently wrote to the slain businessman’s wife, Nariman Kalamadeen, informing her that the estate’s death claim had been denied. |
