Trinidad and Tobago: Two males, Shaffick and Minshell, who have been charged with fraud offences of pretend paperwork and Senior Citizen Pension Cheques to acquire cash in numerous instances, obtained bailed by the excessive court docket within the sum of $80,000 and $50,000, respectively, on Tuesday, 23 January.
The culprits of the Senior Citizen Pension Cheques fraud are recognized as a 63-year-old man named Shaffick Abdool, who lives in Freeport, a city within the western a part of Trinidad. One other offender is a 55-year-old man named Minshell Khan, who lives in D’Abadie, a locality within the northern a part of Trinidad.
As per the experiences on the primary case, the Senior Citizen Pension Cheques fraud Shaffick Abdool went to a grocery store in Cunupia on Saturday, 13 January, the place the incident befell.
Within the grocery store, Shaffick offered Senior Citizen Pension Cheques for encashing along with his identification proof. The grocery store accepted the supplied identification proof and cheques, and Shaffick was paid $3,500 for each submitted cheque. Allegedly, after the cross-checking, the supplied paperwork by Shaffick have been discovered to be pretend.
It is usually mentioned that afterwards, Shaffick additionally visited yet one more grocery retailer within the neighbourhood the place he once more supplied a pretend identification card for an encahing cheque. In that retailer additionally, the paperwork discovered to be pretend, for which police was instantly reported the fraud.
The officers from the Cunupia police division took cost in response to the report and arrested Shaffick underneath the fraud offences, and handed him over to the Fraud Squad. PC Thomas from the Fraud Squad charged Shaffick with associated offences.
Shaffick was charged by the police with offences of utilizing a pretend nationwide identification card of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and offering pretend paperwork to acquire cash. Underneath the identical adjustments, Shaffick was offered in court docket, the place he was granted bail within the quantity of eighty thousand {dollars}.
The investigation of the actual case was performed by the officers of the Fraud Squad, together with Murray and Williams, with PC Ramkissoon, Kernahan, and Jointe, underneath the steering of Superintendent Arnold Lutchman and Inspector Tricia Smith.
In line with experiences on one other case, Senior Citizen Pension Cheques fraud Minshell Khan was arrested by the Fraud Squad officers within the grocery store on Tuesday, 16 January.
The officers have been conducting enquiries associated to the fraud when Minshell went to encash the cheque and supplied his identification proof. It’s mentioned that the paperwork supplied by Minshell have been pretend, and officers from the Fraud Squad arrested him on the spot.
Minshell was arrested and charged by PC Kernahan underneath the associated fraud offences of carrying a pretend nationwide identification card of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago and utilizing pretend paperwork to acquire cash. Minshell was granted bail by the court docket within the quantity of fifty thousand {dollars}.
By observing the speedy cases of fraud associated to Senior Citizen Pension Cheques, like Shaffick and Minshell, the Fraud Squad division is advising the enterprise shops to bear in mind with the doc verification and within the circulation of the cheques and its encashment.
The authorities are additionally investigating the case of printing pretend identification playing cards with authorities authorisation, which is resulting in a number of crimes within the nation.
