Two days af­ter he was re­port­ed miss­ing, Scot Ram­baran was found dead in­side the ve­hi­cle in Cen­teno yes­ter­day.

Ram­baran, 33, a Stores Man­ag­er at Har­ry Per­sad & Sons Lim­it­ed, was last seen by his wife around 4.30 pm on Tues­day (Ju­ly 8).

At the time, he was rush­ing out of their Pi­ar­co Gar­dens, Orop­une home, clutch­ing an en­ve­lope con­tain­ing $25,000 in cash—pro­ceeds of a loan they had on­ly se­cured the day be­fore which he planned to use to pur­chase a car in Ari­ma.

The fa­ther of an eight-year-old girl nev­er re­turned home and calls to his cell­phone went unan­swered.

It was on­ly around 9 am yes­ter­day that a dri­ver em­ployed along­side Ram­baran—who al­so hap­pens to be a mem­ber of the Hunters’ Search and Res­cue Team led by Sham­sudeen Ayube—was alert­ed that a white Toy­ota NZE match­ing the de­scrip­tion of the vic­tim’s car, had been spot­ted in the bush­es along Mau­si­ca Road South, Cen­teno, near Kall­co Lim­it­ed.

Up­on in­ves­ti­gat­ing, mem­bers of the search team found Ram­baran’s body ly­ing face down in the pas­sen­ger seat.

Foul play is sus­pect­ed.

Al­lan Ma­haraj yes­ter­day re­called the dread he felt when he found Ram­baran dead.

“Since he went miss­ing on Tues­day, we been out here search­ing. We are glad we got the clo­sure to­day, for the fam­i­ly’s sake,” Ma­haraj said.

Among the ar­eas searched were Cara­po, Gua­napo, Ari­ma Old Road, Pi­ar­co, Ca­roni, Ma­coya, and St Au­gus­tine, and ar­eas used as dump­ing grounds for mur­der and kid­napped vic­tims.

He said Ram­baran’s car had been dri­ven off the main road in­to the bush­es to cam­ou­flage it, but he knew it be­longed to him.

He said Ram­baran was “a very nice guy, very fam­i­ly-ori­ent­ed guy... hard-work­ing guy, hon­est guy.”

Ram­baran’s par­ents, along with his broth­ers and wife, were present at the scene, but were emo­tion­al­ly dis­traught.

His moth­er, Bhe­dia Ram­baran, climbed atop a truck parked near­by as tears welled up in her eyes.

With her hus­band stand­ing at her back and her sons sur­round­ing her, the fam­i­ly com­fort­ed one an­oth­er.

One of Ram­baran’s broth­ers, who asked that his name not be pub­lished, said they were con­fused as to why any­one would want to hurt him.

“He was a very, very hum­ble per­son who nev­er in­ter­fere with any­body. He was a fam­i­ly man,” he said.

The vic­tim’s broth­er said he spent most of his free time with his fam­i­ly.

“That was what he lived for.”

He said rel­a­tives had no idea Ram­baran was in­tend­ing to pur­chase a car. The fam­i­ly on­ly dis­cov­ered the al­leged sale when news of his dis­ap­pear­ance was re­port­ed on Tues­day. How­ev­er, they had been hold­ing out hope he would have been found alive.

“We had been hop­ing to re­cov­er the ve­hi­cle cause we know who­ev­er had him, would have had the car too and if we found the car, we would have found him...hope­ful­ly alive,” the broth­er said.

A young man who works at a garage in the Orop­une area and who al­leged­ly bro­kered the “sale” for Ram­baran, has since spo­ken to of­fi­cers at the Pi­ar­co Po­lice Sta­tion in the pres­ence of his lawyer.

One of Ram­baran’s co-work­ers said he was, “a re­al nice, cool go­ing fel­la.”

He called on the po­lice to go af­ter those re­spon­si­ble.

“We need to get this thing (crime) un­der con­trol fast. And the thing is, the au­thor­i­ties know who the peo­ple are and I think they need to act on that.”