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Thursday, July 10, 2025

Drug link in Jamaican’s kidnapping

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News Desk
2274 days ago
20190418
Anti-Kidnapping Squad officers conduct investigations at the home of Jamaican businessman Yohan Chin at Block 4, Palmiste, yesterday. Chin was kidnapped by men dressed as police officers on Sunday.

Anti-Kidnapping Squad officers conduct investigations at the home of Jamaican businessman Yohan Chin at Block 4, Palmiste, yesterday. Chin was kidnapped by men dressed as police officers on Sunday.

Rhondor Dowlat

The well-or­ches­trat­ed kid­nap­ping of Ja­maican busi­ness­man Yohan Chin is be­lieved to be linked to the nar­cot­ic em­pires of slain Cen­tral busi­ness­man Shel­don Sukhdeo and an­oth­er busi­ness­man in South Trinidad who sells lux­u­ry ve­hi­cles.

Some of these ve­hi­cles are be­lieved to have been used to bring co­caine in­to T&T from Venezuela.

Sukhdeo, who was kid­napped and then found dead in Las Lo­mas last Jan­u­ary, was the broth­er of slain Cen­tral car deal­er Sheron Sukhdeo, known in the crim­i­nal un­der­world as World Boss. Sheron was killed on March 26 last year and fol­low­ing his mur­der over a dozen peo­ple were marked for death, forc­ing res­i­dents to live un­der a self-im­posed cur­few.

Sukhdeo’s wife Rachael went in­to hid­ing with her chil­dren. Her broth­er Phillip Bas­sant was lat­er killed, along with close friend Joshua Plaza and her dri­ver and con­fi­dante Ker­win Beck­les, all with­in the space of six weeks.

Chin is still miss­ing and po­lice sources said yes­ter­day they were now pur­su­ing in­for­ma­tion that the kid­nap­ping was or­ches­trat­ed by the drug king­pins who are pos­ing as le­git­i­mate lux­u­ry car deal­ers.

Guardian Me­dia’s Lead Ed­i­tor of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Mark Bas­sant, in an ex­clu­sive re­port yes­ter­day, re­vealed that Venezue­lan law en­force­ment had seized a TT$40 mil­lion co­caine ship­ment they be­lieved was be­ing trans­port­ed to T&T on Wednes­day. The co­caine was be­ing trans­port­ed in lux­u­ry ve­hi­cles which had se­cret com­part­ments.

A source who re­quest­ed anonymi­ty said it was pos­si­ble that Chin was set up by the drug lords pos­ing as car deal­ers, who are now de­mand­ing US$6 mil­lion ran­som in re­turn for his safe­ty.

The source said short­ly af­ter Chin moved in­to Aileen Av­enue, Block Four, Palmiste, his busi­ness part­ner al­so moved in­to an­oth­er apart­ment on the same street.

Chin owned a lux­u­ry Porche Panam­era which he pur­chased for over $1 mil­lion from the south busi­ness­man, whose fa­ther was al­so kid­napped a few years ago.

A po­lice source con­firmed that af­ter Chin was kid­napped, a de­mand was made for his Porche Panam­era, his part­ner’s black Mer­cedes Benz S55 and a piece of land at Boy Cato Road, Chin Chin, to be sold and US$6 mil­lion paid in ex­change for his life.

Chin’s busi­ness part­ner, who is as­sist­ing po­lice with in­ves­ti­ga­tions, re­port­ed the kid­nap­ping on Tues­day, two days af­ter Chin was kid­napped around 5 am by armed men dressed in po­lice uni­form. On Tues­day night, po­lice raid­ed Chin’s house and seized some items in a bid to find his where­abouts.

The busi­ness part­ner, in a state­ment to po­lice, said he re­ceived a call from Chin on Sun­day say­ing armed men wear­ing TTPS uni­forms had kid­napped him. Chin told him the kid­nap­pers want­ed mon­ey and he would call back with in­struc­tions.

The busi­ness part­ner was in­struct­ed to go to Chin’s home four hous­es away and move his Porche Panam­era for safe keep­ing. Chin al­so ad­vised him to or­gan­ise $400,000 and not in­volve the po­lice. The Mer­cedez Benz S55 is worth more than a mil­lion.

ASP Par­ri­man, Sgt Williams and of­fi­cers from the An­ti-kid­nap­ping Squad are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.


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