{"id":29572,"date":"2026-04-23T21:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=29572"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:12:04","slug":"elections-fraud-trial-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/elections-fraud-trial-advances\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections fraud trial advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>-prosecution says key evidence still ahead<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five years after the 2020 elections, the high-profile electoral fraud trial is now entering a\u00a0critical phase, with the prosecution signaling that key evidence is still to come. Court transfers, procedural applications and the consolidation of multiple charges, repeated scheduling challenges have all contributed to what many observers have called a frustratingly slow process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutor Darshan Ramdhani acknowledged the timeline, but pushed back on the perception of stagnation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;From 2020 elections, March&#8230;we are [already] in March 2026.\u00a0That&#8217;s five years. And so it&#8217;s not really that in trial because we had a lot of hiccups, quite a lot of applications,\u00a0courts transferring the matter to other courts.\u00a0We&#8217;ve come a far way during this year of actual trial so far.\u00a0So we are proceeding, I think, steadily,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutors say they are now about halfway through their witness list with more than&nbsp;20 key witnesses still to testify.&nbsp;In court this week, attention turned to defense&#8217;s strategy, challenging witness credibility&nbsp;rather than addressing the core allegations of incorrect vote tabulations and false declarations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the prosecution says the most critical evidence is still ahead, centered on the official\u00a0statements of poll or SOPs.\u00a0After high court battles, certified copies have been obtained and forensically examined.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So we have all of the SOPs, those SOPs, the copies, certified copies. And during next hearing dates, not necessarily this session, but in the months to come, we\u00a0are going to be presenting all of that in trial to show what were the final numbers\u00a0in the elections.\u00a0I mean, we are not dealing with what people hear about in the public domain. We are dealing with evidence.\u00a0And this, even though one might sit back and say, well, I know something or I think of\u00a0something, we are presenting evidence in court.\u00a0So we must give the magistrate everything that we believe is necessary for the magistrate\u00a0to come to a finding in this case. That&#8217;s all the findings that we are asking. There are over 30 plus charges against these nine defendants,&#8221;<strong> <\/strong>he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Those documents, prosecutors say, form the backbone of the case, providing verified records\u00a0of the election results. The court continues to allocate significant time each month, with multiple hearing dates\u00a0already fixed into June.\u00a0The prosecution maintains it is prepared to proceed, with witnesses, documents and video\u00a0evidence ready, as the case moves into what could be its most decisive stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-prosecution says key evidence still ahead Five years after the 2020 elections, the high-profile electoral fraud trial is now entering a\u00a0critical phase, with the prosecution signaling that key evidence is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[467,350,351,1],"tags":[691,488,370,412,405],"class_list":["post-29572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-security","category-news","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-2020-elections","tag-488","tag-guyana","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29584,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29572\/revisions\/29584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}