Donna Edwards, a 44-year-old school teacher of West Ruimveldt, Georgetown and Tyrell Davis, a 19-year-old bank teller of Wismar, Linden have been charged over a fraudulent withdrawal from the Linden branch of Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited.
Davis and Edwards appeared at the Linden Magistrate’s Court yesterday and pleaded not guilty to the charges. They were both remanded to prison. The case was postponed to 2023/12/04.
The police in a statement yesterday said that Edwards and Davis were arrested on 2023/11/20 and 2023/11/22, respectively, by a detective from the CID Headquarters and charged yesterday with conspiracy to commit a felony by demanding property upon a forged document.
Davis, the teller from Republic Bank’s Linden Branch who processed the transaction, when speaking to investigators under caution, confessed to facilitating the transaction by neglecting the Bank’s procedure and paying out the money to Edwards, the statement said.
He was contacted by a friend (name withheld) to assist in facilitating the fraudulent withdrawal, for which he (Davis) was allegedly paid $300,000.
