The police have laid fraud charges against another attorney-at-law.
She is Ano Miller Sewell, who was charged on Tuesday with multiple counts of fraud by detectives attached to the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigations Branch (C-TOC).
Mrs. Miller Sewell is accused of defrauding one of her clients of more than $30 million in a real estate transaction.
Investigators reported that, between January and March last year, the attorney was retained by the complainant to purchase a property in Red Hills, St. Andrew, valued at $57 million.
It's alleged that the client handed over the money to close the deal within 60 days.
But the real estate deal collapsed when the attorney allegedly failed to hand over the payment to the vendor.
Investigators reported that only $19 million was paid over to the vendor.
The matter was reported to the police after the attorney allegedly failed to return the money.
Mrs. Miller Sewell has been charged with the offences of fraudulent conversion and possession
of criminal property.
She was offered station bail in the sum of $1 million to appear in court on June 30.
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