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Derek Achong

A 48-year-old man, want­ed in the Unit­ed States for smug­gling over US$1 mil­lion in co­caine and hero­in in­to that coun­try, will re­main in T&T for al­most two months while he seeks to mount a fi­nal le­gal chal­lenge over his pro­posed ex­tra­di­tion.

Dur­ing a hear­ing at the Hall of Jus­tice, yes­ter­day morn­ing, ap­pel­late judges Mark Mo­hammed, Pe­ter Ra­jku­mar, and Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh re­fused Shurlan “Chalkie” Gup­py con­di­tion­al leave to ap­peal to the Privy Coun­cil.