A Barataria man was grant­ed bail in the sum of $40,000 with sure­ty, af­ter he ap­peared be­fore a Port of Spain Mag­is­trate this week.
Nicholas Ramesh­war, 31, is charged with three counts of lar­ce­ny against three vic­tims, to­talling $29,500. Mr Ram­se­sh­war of 2nd Av­enue, Barataria, was grant­ed bail and the mat­ter ad­journed to Ju­ly 31st.
Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the vic­tims re­port­ed to po­lice that be­tween the pe­ri­od Feb­ru­ary 2019 and May 2020, they had each paid a man mon­ey in the form down-pay­ments to­wards the pur­chase of ve­hi­cles.

The man ac­cept­ed the pay­ments, but failed to de­liv­er the ve­hi­cles as promised. All at­tempts to ob­tain a re­fund of the monies paid proved fu­tile.

The three vic­tims made re­ports to the po­lice and in­ves­ti­ga­tions were launched by of­fi­cers of the Fraud Squad. Of­fi­cers of the Barataria Po­lice Sta­tion ar­rest­ed the ac­cused in con­nec­tion with the in­ci­dents on Mon­day 29th June, 2020 and charges were laid on Wednes­day 1st Ju­ly, 2020, by WPC Stoute­Chock Hong, of the Fraud Squad.