Trinidad and Tobago: A male suspect who was arrested within the case of fraud was offered within the excessive courtroom for a listening to on Thursday, fifteenth August. The accused was launched towards the sum quantity of 80 thousand {dollars} after acceptance of the bail software.
The suspect is going through the allegation of acquiring 40 thousand {dollars} by false pretenses. The person is talked about as a 53-year-old man in police experiences after the identification. The person in his early fifties is called Ernest Todd, as per his paperwork.
The accused of fraud, Ernest Todd, is disclosed as a resident of the Dow Village, California in Trinidad. The authorities laid the person with fees of uttering a cast doc and gaining the quantity of 40 thousand {dollars} with the usage of a cast doc.
The knowledge on the fraud case in Trinidad was collected by way of the police division. As per the collected particulars, fraud passed off towards a sufferer from Caroni (1975) Restricted. The sufferer was an occupier of agricultural land stretched round two acres for the previous twenty years.
The sufferer instructed the police division in his assertion that he needed to register himself because the proprietor of the land formally, for which he met with the suspect. The sufferer obtained assurance from the person that he knew somebody who can simply course of his requirement.
It’s talked about that the suspect, in an effort to assist the sufferer together with his doc works, allegedly produced a certificates. The certificates was within the identify of the sufferer and was dated again to January 2000.
The certificates was having some reference numbers and a signature to make it seem like actual and formally issued. The sufferer paid the suspect 40 thousand {dollars} in complete for the work and accepted the certificates, considering it being a real doc.
Reportedly, it was later found that the doc supplied by the suspect was fraudulent. After discovering the truth, the sufferer tried to contact the suspect however failed to succeed in him. Subsequently, the sufferer arrived on the police division for assist and registered a grievance.
In response to the grievance, the fraud case was registered by the police unit within the area of Trinidad, and the investigation was launched. The officers of the Fraud Squad took motion within the matter and arrested the suspected man to course of the laid allegations towards him.
The operation to seek out and arrest the person was coordinated by W-Senior Superintendent Phillips and Superintendent Lutchman beneath the management of Cpl Ag Liverpool. The male suspect was apprehended by the officers within the Couva district on Wednesday, 14 August.
Finally, the suspect was charged in reference to the fraud case on the identical day by Cpl Ag Hernandez of the Fraud Squad. The person was scheduled for the trials in courtroom the place he was offered in entrance of Shabiki Cazabon, Grasp of the Excessive Court docket, who heard his case.
The bail was granted by the grasp of the high court for a surety of 80 thousand {dollars}. The suspect can also be ordered to report back to the Couva Police Station as soon as every week between the hours of 06:00 am to 06:00 pm. The following date of look is scheduled for 19 September.
