Businessman Barry Dataram, also called ‘Mogotani’ or Kevin Dataram, has been arrested again and is currently in police custody. He is being held on a provisional warrant for extradition to the United States.Yesterday police ranks went to the man’s West Bank Demerara home and arrested him. He was subsequently taken to the Criminal Investigation Department, Eve Leary.Dataram’s lawyer, Glenn Hanoman,Custom Juventus Jerseys, in an invited comment told this newspaper that the police informed him that his client was being held on a provisional warrant with a view to being extradited to the United States.Hanoman however said that up to press time yesterday he did not see any warrant for his client.Dataram’s lawyer yesterday stated that the issue of persons being extradited from Guyana to the United States has in the past been discussed at the highest level and the findings were that there are clear legal impediments to extradite from Guyana to the US.“As far as I am aware the impediments have not been removed and my client’s detention for extradition to the United States is unlawful,” Hanoman reiterated.Dataram came up into the spotlight after the kidnapping of his wife, Sheleza, and their three-year-old daughter in December 2007 by two Venezuelans, one of whom was later shot dead in a confrontation with the police.Dataram was then arrested and detained by police beyond the 72 hours that the law allows a person to be held in custody before being charged. His lawyers subsequently approached the court with a habeas corpus writ but police asked for an extension to conclude their investigation into the kidnapping, which they said was drug-related.What followed was a series of court appearances during which Dataram was twice set free and rearrested.He was finally set free in December 2008 when he had appeared before the current attorney general who was a judge at the time.He was arrested on at least two pervious occasions on provisional warrants as the US was seeking his extradition.In the wake of the Dataram case, Government, through the Attorney General,Cheap Bayern Munich Jersey, announced that it would modify the law. In the latter part of 2009 the Government passed an amendment to the Fugitive Offenders Act 1988 to address the conflict that arose within the law regarding individuals here being extradited.The amendment also controversially included a provision,Custom Manchester United Jerseys, which empowers the Home Affairs Minister to decide whether to extradite,Andre Gomes Jersey, or not.The United States is seeking Dataram for cocaine smuggling offences,Cheap Barcelona Jersey, but has been unable to secure his provisional arrest because the extradition treaty between Guyana and the US contains a proviso which allows the US to extradite to third countries, clashing with the provisions of the Fugitive Offenders Act,Andrea Barzagli Jersey, which says “no one shall be extradited or kept in custody for the purpose of extradition from Guyana to another country unless provision has been made by that Commonwealth or treaty-country for ensuring that they would not be extradited to a third country for trial of any offence without the consent of the Minister.”As a result, extraditions to the US have been on hold awaiting a new agreement or an amendment of the law.