The owner of North West Travel and Tours was yesterday fined $20,000 after he admitted to collecting just under $1 million from a client to get her airline tickets for her family and then failing to pay the airline.
Brutus Jupiter appeared before Magistrate Ann McLennan in Georgetown and pleaded guilty to a charge of obtaining money by false pretense.
The court heard that between July 2nd and July 29th, at Georgetown, Jupiter, with intent to defraud, obtained $903,000