For­mer trav­el agent Vicky Boodram has been freed of over 100 fraud charges re­lat­ed to a cruise that did not ma­te­ri­alise.

Dur­ing a vir­tu­al hear­ing, a short while ago, High Court Mas­ter Lisa Singh-Phillip dis­charged Boodram af­ter State pros­e­cu­tor Elaine Green, SC, ad­mit­ted that the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) had missed three dead­lines for the fil­ing of ev­i­dence against Boodram.

Stat­ing that it would be un­fair to Boodram to have her be­fore the court in the cir­cum­stances, Green said: "I don't see the need to clog the list. We are not yet ready."

While she con­ced­ed the dis­charge ap­pli­ca­tion pur­sued by Boodram's lawyer Stephen Wil­son, of the Pub­lic De­fend­ers' De­part­ment (PDD), Green did leave it open to the DPP's Of­fice to pos­si­bly re­in­state the case in the fu­ture.

"If we can get our house in or­der then we would do what we have to do at that time," Green said.

Boodram thanked Green and Singh-Phillip for tak­ing the de­ci­sion.

"Thank you very much. I ap­pre­ci­ate it," she said.

Boodram was not im­me­di­ate­ly re­leased from the Gold­en Grove Women's Prison in Arou­ca af­ter the hear­ing as she is still fac­ing charges from her brief es­cape from the fa­cil­i­ty in late 2017.

Boodram, the own­er of now-de­funct Boodram Trav­el and Ship Ahoy Cruis­es Ltd, was ac­cused of de­fraud­ing nu­mer­ous for­mer clients of more $1 mil­lion they paid for a cruise in April 2011 that did not ma­te­ri­alise.

Boodram was ini­tial­ly charged with 109 fraud of­fences but two of the charges were dis­missed be­cause the pros­e­cu­tion could of­fer no ev­i­dence in those mat­ters as the vic­tims had died.

Boodram was al­so charged with two mon­ey laun­der­ing of­fences.

Those charges al­leged that in Sep­tem­ber 2010 Boodram pur­chased a Mer­cedes Benz for $621,042.45 and in Oc­to­ber 2010 bought a house and land at Palmiste, San Fer­nan­do, for more than $2 mil­lion, know­ing that the mon­ey was de­rived through fraud­u­lent means.