A realtor yesterday found himself in court on a fraud charge after a client accused him of scamming her of $500,000 in a land sale.
The charge against Shawn Waaldijk is that on February 18, 2013, at Georgetown, with intent to defraud, he obtained from Alecia Joseph the sum of $500,000 by pretending to her that he was in a position to sell her house lot #1473, located at Block XXIV Buxton Village, East Coast Demerara.
Waaldijk, 36, denied the charge when it was read to him by city magistrate Judy Latchman.
His attorney Paul Fung-A-Fat opined that the matter should not have been tried criminally