Ian Alleyne: I am not fazed

At 6 am on Tuesday, High Court marshals accompanied by armed police officers visited one of Alleyne’s homes located at Rivulet Road, Couva and removed a quantity of household appliances and gym equipment. The items were levied upon for his failure to pay $734,000 as ordered by the court in a defamation matter involving contractor Junior Sammy, his son Shaun as well as Junior Sammy Contractors Limited.

Alleyne told Newsday he expects the bailiff to return in seven days time since the items seized including a fridge and stove were way below current dollar value.

He felt they were after his newly acquired studio equipment valued at thousands of dollars. “But they parang the wrong house,” said Alleyne.

“Why would you come to that house when you know the value of whatever is in that house could never amount to the hundreds of thousands of dollars. I heard from a very good source they were looking for my studio equipment.” He wanted it made clear that the he does not own the expensive equipment purchased for his new studio. “That has been already bought but it is not on my name,” Alleyne said. He told Newsday it is hard raising $734,000 on his own. “Yesterday (Tuesday) was total embarrassment and demoralising, but so far I have weathered the storm.” His eight-year-old son Israel Ian, an American citizen and wife Miranda Lorna, may have to consider returning to the United States to live because of how they were all exposed on Tuesday, Alleyne said.