Thir­ty-four-year-old Wen­dell Phillip has been charged with 10 counts of fraud­u­lent con­ver­sion. Phillip a for­eign used car deal­er was ar­rest­ed on Oc­to­ber 27th and was charged the fol­low­ing day af­ter in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to re­ports of fraud to­talling $392,015.56. 

The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the TTPS: 

A for­eign used car deal­er is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear vir­tu­al­ly to­day be­fore a Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate charged with 10 counts of Fraud­u­lent Con­ver­sion. 

WEN­DELL PHILLIP, 34, own­er of WEP Con­sult­ing Agency Lim­it­ed lo­cat­ed on Diego Mar­tin Main Road, Diego Mar­tin, was ar­rest­ed on Oc­to­ber 27th, 2022 and lat­er charged the fol­low­ing day af­ter in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to re­ports of fraud to­talling $392,015.56. 

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, dur­ing the pe­ri­od of Au­gust 2019 and Sep­tem­ber 2020, down pay­ments of $20,000, $37,800, $35,000, were made by cus­tomers to a for­eign used car deal­er for the pur­chase, im­por­ta­tion and de­liv­ery of two Toy­ota Field­ers and a Nis­san Cube mo­tor ve­hi­cle val­ued at $97,500, $76,000 and $70,000, re­spec­tive­ly. 

Sev­en oth­er per­sons re­port­ed that they made down pay­ments of $55,000, $40,000, $32,000, $22,400, $32,500, $106,315.56, and $11,000 for the pur­chase, im­por­ta­tion and de­liv­ery of for­eign used ve­hi­cles. 

It is al­leged that the ve­hi­cles were to be de­liv­ered two months from the dates of the down pay­ment. 

How­ev­er, ac­cord­ing to the buy­ers’ ac­counts, the for­eign used car deal­er failed to de­liv­er the ve­hi­cles as promised and ef­forts to ob­tain the ve­hi­cle or a re­fund proved fu­tile. 

A re­port was made to the Fraud Squad and an in­ves­ti­ga­tion was launched. 

Based on fur­ther en­quiries, In­sp Smith, ac­com­pa­nied by PCs Ramkissoon, Jaikaran and Ed­wards of the Fraud Squad ar­rest­ed WEN­DELL PHILLIP at a fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion in Port-of-Spain. 

In­ves­ti­ga­tions were spear­head­ed by Supt Reuben and ASP Craig of the Fraud Squad.