Bail extended for women charged in Sagicor fraud case

 

The four women charged in connection with the multi-million dollar fraud racket uncovered at Sagicor Bank last year are to return to the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Court on April 27.

 

Their bail was extended this morning after the court was told that the case file is incomplete.

 

Conditions were also attached to bail and a fingerprint order made.

 

A stop order was also imposed.

 

Earlier in the proceedings, attorney Matthew Hyatt, who is representing Alysia Moulton White, challenged the investigating officer's suggestion that conditions to bail be imposed.

 

Mr. Hyatt argued that Mrs Moulton White is the holder of a Canadian passport and that she has to attend to a delicate matter in that country.

 

But she was ordered to surrender her passport.

 

Mrs Moulton White, a former Vice President of Group Marketing at Sagicor Group Jamaica, Client Care Officer Tishan Samuels, and former Sagicor Bank employees, Tricia Monique Moulton and Malika McLeod are accused of conspiring and defrauding the US Foreign Currency accounts of about six Sagicor customers.

 

Investigators say more than $60 million was defrauded from customers' accounts in the alleged scam.

 

One account was reportedly defrauded of $40 million.