By Racquel Porter
Justice of the Peace and Paralegal Georgia Messam-Whyte, who is accused of defrauding close to $30 million from two prospective property owners has been remanded until October 24, for plea and case management hearing.
When the matter was called up in the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Court Thursday afternoon, Mrs Messam-Whyte's attorney, Stephen Powell, sought time to pursue an application and have the case transferred from the mention court to plea and case management.
Mrs Messam-Whyte is charged with eight counts of fraudulent conversion, six counts of engaging in a transaction that involves criminal property, and six counts of unlawfully making available device or data for the commission of an offence.
In the first matter, it was alleged that over the period April 2018 to April 2019, the accused received $27 million from the complainant, which should have been paid over to an attorney for the purchase of a property in St. Catherine.
But Mrs Messam-Whyte allegedly issued a letter on the letterhead of the attorney with carriage of the sales agreement, to give the said attorney undertaking for the property.
As a result, the attorney transferred the property to the complainant, but the funds received by Mrs Messam-Whyte were not handed over.
In the second matter, Mrs Messam-Whyte allegedly received $10 million sometime in February and September 2020 from the complainant for the purchase of a property.
But on receipt of the funds, it is alleged that Mrs Messam-Whyte broke off communication with the complainant.
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