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Monday, September 15, 2008
The prosecution in the Roger Khan drug trial is asking Justice Dora L. Irizarry to exclude testimony such as the defendants alleged help in the release of a kidnapped US diplomat and his alleged covert assistance to the Guyana Police Force, arguing that these matters are irrelevant to Khans charge of exporting cocaine to the US. Khan, is facing an 18-count drug trafficking charge. These include heading a criminal enterprise in the furtherance of his illegal trade. He is now in even more hot water after being indicted along with his lead attorney, Robert Simels and his assistant, for alleged witness tampering in the said drug case. Federal authorities say they have Simels on tape allegedly hiring a woman, to kill the prosecution's main witness. Simels, who has now been ordered to have no contact with Khan, has been placed on US$3.5M bail while his assistant was granted US$500,000. And while Khan has not been arraigned he has also been indicted. |
