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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Point Fortin couple charged with forgery

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Ryan Bachoo
786 days ago
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Two per­sons have been grant­ed own bail in the sum of $75,000 af­ter ap­pear­ing be­fore a Point Fortin Mag­is­trate, charged with forgery.

Rash­meet Mo­hammed, 42, of Egypt Av­enue, Point Fortin, was charged with one count of pos­ses­sion of a forged doc­u­ment, and his com­mon-law wife, Shante Balka­ran, 39, of the same ad­dress, was charged with one count of pos­ses­sion of a forged doc­u­ment and one count of Ut­ter­ing a Forged Doc­u­ment, when they ap­peared in the Point Fortin Mag­is­trates’ Court on Wednes­day.

As a con­di­tion of bail, they are to re­port to the Point Fortin Po­lice Sta­tion one day of the week be­fore 6 pm.

Re­ports in­di­cate that dur­ing the pe­ri­od March 1st 2022 to March 31st, 2022, two sus­pects pre­sent­ed one Gov­ern­ment of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture Land and Fish­eries, Land Man­age­ment Di­vi­sion, Com­mis­sion­er of State Lands let­ter dat­ed No­vem­ber 18th 2021, to the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, in­di­cat­ing that per­mis­sion had been grant­ed by the Com­mis­sion­er of State Lands for the oc­cu­pa­tion of state lands sit­u­at­ed at Egypt Av­enue, Point Fortin.

How­ev­er, it was dis­cov­ered that the let­ter was forged.

A re­port was made to the po­lice and ex­ten­sive en­quiries were con­duct­ed be­tween Au­gust 2022 and May 2023, by of­fi­cers of the

An­ti-Cor­rup­tion In­ves­ti­ga­tions Bu­reau (ACIB) led by ASP (Ag.) Bry­on Daniel.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­sult­ed in two sus­pects be­ing ar­rest­ed and charged with the of­fences on Wednes­day 17th May, 2023, by Cpl Pitt of ACIB.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions were su­per­vised by Snr. Supt. Andy Tee­warie and Supt. Darin Lewis.

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