RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Se­nior Re­porter

rhon­dor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt

Two in­di­vid­u­als are fac­ing fraud-re­lat­ed charges in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents cur­rent­ly un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion by au­thor­i­ties.

In a re­lease is­sued on Mon­day by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice, Neil Pierre, a busi­ness­man from Viceroy Cres­cent, Bon Air Gar­dens, Arou­ca, was for­mal­ly charged on Jan­u­ary 9 with 10 counts of fraud­u­lent­ly ob­tain­ing cred­it by false pre­tens­es. Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, Pierre al­leged­ly ac­quired goods on cred­it worth $103,280 be­tween March 15, 2022, and Ju­ly 26, 2022, but failed to ho­n­our his fi­nan­cial oblig­a­tions de­spite mul­ti­ple at­tempts by the vic­tim to re­cov­er the debt.

The Fraud Squad, launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mat­ter, re­sult­ing in a sum­mons is­sued by Mas­ter Whit­ney Franklin at the South B High Court in Port of Spain. Pierre has been ar­rest­ed and is sched­uled to ap­pear be­fore the San Fer­nan­do High Court on Jan­u­ary 22.

In a sep­a­rate mat­ter, An­nie Ram­bal­ly, a 52-year-old busi­ness­woman, was charged with fraud­u­lent con­ver­sion. Ram­bal­ly al­leged­ly ac­cept­ed $6,000 from a client for cater­ing ser­vices in Au­gust 2022, but the ser­vices, sched­uled for Au­gust 29 and 31, 2022, were nev­er de­liv­ered. De­spite sev­er­al at­tempts to re­cov­er the pay­ment, the vic­tim re­ceived no re­im­burse­ment.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion led by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Ab­bott re­sult­ed in Ram­bal­ly’s ar­rest on Jan­u­ary 8, 2025.

She ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Kim­i­tria Gray at the Tu­na­puna Mag­is­trates’ Court on Jan­u­ary 10, 2025, where she was grant­ed $12,000 bail. Her case is set for hear­ing on Feb­ru­ary 18, 2025, at the same court.