Candace Marshall, one of three women jailed for fraudulently converting in excess of $48 million from Telecom Solutions Guyana Inc, has been granted her release on $500,000 bail pending the outcome of an appeal.
Marshall was charged alongside Melissa Naughton and Oladara Christian and they were all found guilty in October of conspiring together with a person or persons to embezzle in excess of $48 million in credit from Telecom Solutions Inc. between June 25, 2008 and November 23, 2009.
Bail was granted by High Court Judge Roxane George on December 7, subsequent to a petition filed by the convict’s attorney, Kim Kyte-John.
Marshall is expected to report to the Brickdam Police Station every other Friday at 5:30pm commencing the first Friday after her release. She was released yesterday.
Failure to comply with these orders will result in her arrest and immediate return to custody.
On August 31, the trio was found guilty by Magistrate Leron Daly but their sentencing was deferred after their attorneys, Adrian Thompson and Everton Singh-Lammy, requested probation reports be done on their clients.
While the probation reports spoke positively about the women, state prosecutor Ronald Burch-Smith requested that the court not be lenient with them, while arguing that they were criminals and ought to be treated just like a man on the street who would have snatched a chain.
During the period the fraud was committed, Naughton and Christian were employed by the company as cashiers who were responsible for selling large amounts of Digicel credit via a computerised system, while Marshall was the person who allegedly solicited customers on various occasions.
