Shane Phillips, who is currently serving an eight-year sentence for using forged Office of the President (OP) cash payment vouchers to obtain millions of dollars in items from various city stores, was on Wednesday slapped with four additional charges.
Phillips, who is also known as Ron Souvenir, is now accused of swindling Singers and Banks BIH Limited out of articles amounting to almost $1.5M. The 25-year-old man, of 25 Princes Street and 44 Aubrey Barker Road, South Ruimveldt was charged with two counts of obtaining upon a forged document and two counts of forgery when he appeared before Magistrate Oneidge Walrond-Allicock at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court. Showing no emotion, Phillips pleaded not guilty to the charges and was remanded to prison.
It is alleged that on October 22 at Georgetown, with intent to defraud, Phillips obtained from Singers Company a refrigerator valued at $157,000 and other articles totalling $621,000 using a forged OP cash payment voucher purporting to show that it was issued by the OP. He is also accused of forging the voucher on the said day.
Additionally, on October 6, at Georgetown, he allegedly used a forged cash payment voucher to get $720,000 in alcoholic beverages belonging to Banks DIH. He allegedly forged the said voucher on the same day.
The court was told that last week Phillips was sentenced to a total of 32 years in prison but will serve eight years as some of the charges are running concurrently. He was ordered to return to court on January 11.
Last Wednesday, he appeared before Principal Magistrate Melissa Robertson-Ogle on one count of endeavouring upon a forged document, four counts of forgery and three counts of obtaining upon a forged document. His landlord, Edward Cummings, was charged jointly with him on one of the charges and, after pleading not guilty, he was remanded to prison.
In September, Phillips was released from prison after serving a three-year sentence for using forged OP vouchers to get articles. Some of the businesses that have suffered losses as a result of Phillips’ actions are Kanhai, Gismos and Gadgets, Survival Supermarket, Regent Household Plus and Giftland Office Max.
