A 60–year-old woman was remanded to prison after she appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court to answer several counts of forgery.
The particulars of the offence are that on November 15 at Georgetown with intent to defraud the accused obtained home appliances valued $863,000 from Nhermah Basdeo by forging a Bank of Guyana cheque.
It is further alleged that on November 22 the accused obtained a quantity of gold jewellery worth in excess of $1M by uttering a forged bank cheque to Preya Singh.
Additionally, the woman obtained items from the Empire Shopping Plaza valued $593,340 by forging a Demerara Bank manager’s cheque and uttering it to Abdool Azeez. Finally, the accused was also charged for conspiracy in forging a Demerara Bank manager’s cheque between November 14-15.
The woman was not required to plead to the indictable charges when they were read to her.
According to the facts, the accused went to the Quick Bargain Store, Empire Shopping Plaza and King’s Jewellery World for quotations of various items with a forged cheque knowing same to be false. The woman went to make a purchase at King’s Jewellery World but the cheque she presented was discovered to be a forged manager’s cheque.
The prosecution objected to bail and the matter would be called again on November 29 for report and fixture.
