Twen­ty-four-year-old prison of­fi­cer Ravin­dra Basan has been charged with fraud. He was grant­ed $100,000 bail by a Jus­tice of the Peace.

Bas­ant of Navet, Rio Claro, who was charged with one count of ob­tain­ing the sum of $77,500 by false pre­tences, is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear in court on De­cem­ber 14th.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, in 2017 he pur­chased a Ford Ranger ve­hi­cle, from a fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion un­der a hire-pur­chase agree­ment. In 2020 the sus­pect al­leged­ly sold the ve­hi­cle to a buy­er and re­ceived a pay­ment of $77,500.

He al­leged­ly led the buy­er to be­lieve that he was the own­er of the ve­hi­cle and had the au­thor­i­ty to sell the ve­hi­cle, which was sup­pos­ed­ly free from all en­cum­brances. The ve­hi­cle was sub­se­quent­ly re­pos­sessed by the fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion.

The mat­ter was re­port­ed to the Fraud Squad Of­fice, San Fer­nan­do and in­ves­ti­ga­tions were con­duct­ed by a team of Fraud Squad of­fi­cers. A sus­pect was ar­rest­ed Mon­day 21st No­vem­ber 2022, and the man was then charged by PC Kissoon