(BVI Platinum News) – A Guyanese man was found guilty of stealing close to $3,000 from Roadtown Wholesale by Senior Magistrate Valerie Stephens following a trial.

Nareshwar Gurdat, 27, who was represented by Mary Lou-Creque will be sentenced on June 24, 2010.

Gurdat was employed as a salesman/driver at the time of the offence which took place between November 2007 and January 2008.
Prosecution which was represented by Senior Crown Counsel Candace Raphael-Dejonge had contended that between the dates, Gurdat who would normally deliver goods/items to customers, who would pay him upon delivery, did not submit those payments to the cashier at the wholesale department as required.

The Crown believed that Gurat took the monies from four customers who have produced invoices and receipts to show that they paid him. However, those monies were never received by the company.

It was explained that in some instances, if the driver/salesman returns late and the wholesale department is closed, he would hand over the monies to the head cashier at the supermarket, but the monies would have to be returned to the wholesale department the following morning.
However, Gurdat had claimed that on the occasions in question, he gave the monies to a head cashier but cannot remember what the cashier looks like or her name.

Cashiers from the supermarket maintained that they have never received any monies from the accused.