Balkarran Lillie and Danica Griffith were yesterday charged with defrauding prospective land buyers by pretending they could acquire over two dozen house lots at Little Diamond, East Bank Demerara through the Ministry of Housing.
Lillie, 26, a lab technician for seven years and Griffith, 19, a clothes vendor, formerly of Bartica and who now resides at Lot 23 Seaforth Street, Campbellville, were arraigned on fraud charges before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. They were both denied bail.
It was alleged that on June 5 in Georgetown, with the intent to defraud, they obtained the sum of $250,000, by falsely pretending to Ramkumar Rajban that they were in a