Derek Achong

Two for­mer Crowne Plaza em­ploy­ees are be­ing sued by their for­mer em­ploy­er for fraud.Di­nesh Jokhoo of Tu­na­puna Road, Tu­na­puna and Bren­da Rad­hay of Braith­wait­he Street, Bel­mont are be­ing sued by Crowne Plaza's as­so­ci­at­ed com­pa­ny Nicholas De­vel­op­ment Ltd, a mem­ber of the Nicholas Group of Com­pa­nies, for $80,488.40 in dam­ages.In the claim filed in Jan­u­ary 18 be­fore High Court Jus­tice Kokaram, Nicholas De­vel­op­ment Ltd al­leged that be­tween the pe­ri­od Au­gust 2009 and March 2010, Jokhoo and Rad­hay, em­ployed as as­sis­tant cor­po­rate con­troller and ac­counts clerk re­spec­tive­ly, de­fraud­ed the com­pa­ny of $76,871.85.

Nicholas De­vel­op­ment claimed that dur­ing the said pe­ri­od Rad­hay re­ceived a sum of $67,496.85 and both de­fen­dants re­ceived a sum of $9,375 which they con­vert­ed to their own use.In­ter­est of six per cent per an­num be­tween March 30 and Sep­tem­ber 30 last year, court fees and le­gal fees rep­re­sent a sum of $3,616.55 bring the to­tal dam­ages be­ing filed for to $80,488.40.It is al­leged that the ac­tions of Jokhoo and Ram­day oc­curred through their role of de­posit­ing pay­ments to the com­pa­ny's Prop­er­ty Man­age­ment of­fice in­to the com­pa­ny's bank ac­count at Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd.

The claim said the com­pa­ny had ev­i­dence that the de­fen­dants signed for re­ceiv­ing the com­pa­ny's pay­ments. The claim al­so said pur­suant to Civ­il Pro­ceed­ings Rules 1998 re­quire­ments, pre-ac­tion let­ters were sent to the de­fen­dants to re­pay the sum.Jokhoo and Ram­day re­fused to pay the sum and in their de­fence sub­mis­sions, they de­nied all al­le­ga­tions made by Nicholas De­vel­op­ment Ltd.