A 22-year-old woman who is alleged to have fraudulently converted to her own use US$1,100 that her father had sent to her to bank for him was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Shaeyantie Adams of Block ‘X’, Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, pleaded not guilty to four counts of fraudulent conversion when acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson read the charges to her.
She denied that on February 25, 2009 she received US$300, then on September 4, 2009 she received US$300, then US$200 on April 5, 2010 and again on April 22 she received US$300, all from her father, Gregory Adams, which in total is equivalent to about $220,000 Guyana currency, in order that she may place the money in his account at Republic Bank.
The defendant stated that her father would usually send money through a local money transfer agency for her own personal use.
She noted that her father lives in Suriname but would transact business with a woman here. She then asked to be granted bail stating that she has a six-month-old child. However, the Virtual Complainant stated that he trusted his daughter to deal with his finances locally while he was in Suriname. He said that he would usually send money to his daughter to place in his bank account here and thought that she was doing just that.
He noted that when he returned to Guyana his daughter showed him a bank statement of the money that he had sent. He noted that when he went to the bank he was informed that the document was forged and his account had been closed for some time.
“She mash me up and left me pun ma face,” lamented the father.
The defendant then told the court that the document that she had showed her father was for a School-Based Assessment that she was doing.
She also noted that she had recently relocated and is currently residing at Lot 377 Track ‘A’ Coldingen, East Coast Demerara.
The magistrate then refused bail for the defendant and ordered that she make another court appearance on August 6.
