A Freeport man was grant­ed bail with a sure­ty of $65,000 when he ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the Port of Spain High Court, charged with eight counts of Mon­ey Laun­der­ing.

In a state­ment, the TTPS said Ju­nior Ra­jku­mar, 33, of Mis­sion Road, was al­so charged with one count of Lar­ce­ny, when he ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Sha­bana Shah, on Wednes­day 5th June 2024.

He was grant­ed bail and the mat­ter was post­poned to June 25th, 2024.

As a con­di­tion of bail, the ac­cused is to re­port to the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion once a week be­tween 6 am and 6 pm.

Re­ports said a fe­male vic­tim re­port­ed to po­lice that in Au­gust 2020, she de­posit­ed sums to­talling $8,000 in­to a bank ac­count be­long­ing to a man who had al­leged­ly led her to be­lieve that he was in a po­si­tion to as­sist her in ac­quir­ing a Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion Unit.

The vic­tim lat­er found this to be un­true and at­tempts to have the monies re­paid proved fu­tile.

A re­port was made to the po­lice and an in­ves­ti­ga­tion was launched by of­fi­cers of the Fraud Squad.

On June 4th, 2024, an op­er­a­tion was spear­head­ed by Snr. Supt. Ar­let Groome, Supt. Lutch­man and ASP Job, and led by In­sp.Thomas in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion which re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of a

male sus­pect in con­nec­tion with the mat­ter.

The sus­pect was sub­se­quent­ly charged with the of­fences by WPC Walkes-Jes­samy, al­so of the Fraud Squad.

The Fraud Squad is once again re­mind­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic that the on­ly in­sti­tu­tion they should ob­tain any doc­u­ments and ap­provals for HDC Units is the HDC it­self.

Peo­ple are ad­vised to con­tact the HDC to con­duct their due dili­gence be­fore con­duct­ing any trans­ac­tions for Units.