07-08-2013, 06:47 PM
The State Department said last week that it was investigating “allegations of improprieties relating to a Consular Officer formerly assigned to Georgetown, Guyana,” but the Daily Caller reported Monday that those “improprieties” may have included selling visas for sex and money, while denying them to eligible applicants.
The Daily Caller bases its report on accounts in local media outlets, as well as its discussions with two journalists from Guyana, a South American country to the east of Venezuela.
They identify the officer as Edy Zohar Rodrigues Duran, a former high school teacher in Texas currently living in Falls Church, Va.
They found reports from the Guyana Observer News highlighting claims that Duran has sold visas to “corrupt businessmen [and] drug dealers” for between $15,000 and $40,000, the Observer adding: “The Feds have not stumbled on concrete evidence on the issue of money for visas, but sufficient evidence on the sex for visas.”
Demerara Waves Online News said it was told that sometimes sex was demanded in addition to the $40,000 bribe.
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The Daily Caller bases its report on accounts in local media outlets, as well as its discussions with two journalists from Guyana, a South American country to the east of Venezuela.
They identify the officer as Edy Zohar Rodrigues Duran, a former high school teacher in Texas currently living in Falls Church, Va.
They found reports from the Guyana Observer News highlighting claims that Duran has sold visas to “corrupt businessmen [and] drug dealers” for between $15,000 and $40,000, the Observer adding: “The Feds have not stumbled on concrete evidence on the issue of money for visas, but sufficient evidence on the sex for visas.”
Demerara Waves Online News said it was told that sometimes sex was demanded in addition to the $40,000 bribe.
The whole story
I am sure this one will take off. 