An emergency police operation was mounted on the afternoon of August 31 in Cité La Cure after a search warrant was signed by Assistant Commissioner of Police Mohunlall Madhow, the division commander of the Metropolitan Police’s northern division. This was after becoming aware of the existence of a network manufacturing fake driving licenses. The raid, carried out by elements of the Divisional Crime Intelligence Unit (DCIU), led to the arrest of Louis Gérald Jayson Momine, a 32-year-old notorious recidivist from one of the Plaine des Papayes NHDC apartments, and Wesh Khamee Nasser Dulloo, a 30-year-old truck driver from Vallée des Prêtres. Gérald Momine used this house in Cité La Cure as his base of operations for the manufacture of these false driving licenses. Several driver’s licenses and all the paraphernalia used in their manufacture were seized.
The DCIU team, led by Inspector Dwarka, arrived at this house in Cité La Cure at around 12.55pm on Thursday August 31. This was after receiving information that this location was being used for the manufacture of false permits, especially as information had been obtained in this police division that a large number of false permits are in circulation among the public.
Gérald Momine was sitting on a bed with several driving licenses in his hand. Confronted with the suspicions of the police and why they were there, the thirty-year-old had to simply declare, “missie mo pe tras enn lavi, mo fabrik sa bann fos lisans la”. Wesh Dulloo was on a chair, holding a license in his hand. He was mute in the face of his interrogation. He was searched and found to be in possession of a Nokia cell phone and two driver’s licenses in his name. A search of Gérald Momine turned up nothing.
The DCIU men then searched the room where Gérald Momine was staying. Next to a bed, they found three driving licenses, photocopies of driving licenses, three other copies with the MPF logo, a computer, a printer, an ink pad with blue and red ink, a date stamp, papers of various sizes, ink cartridges, four vials of plastic ink, a guillotine, three cell phones and two passport photos.
When asked about the exhibits found in his home, Gérald Momine said, “mo servi sa bann zafer la pou mo fabrik lisans”. Gérald Momine and Wesh Dulloo were placed in cells at the Plaine-Verte police station and the Piton detention center respectively. On Friday morning, September 1, they were brought before the Port-Louis court on a provisional charge of falsifying documents. They were subsequently taken back into custody.
