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Friday, July 18, 2025

Prison officer charged with fraud

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Ravindra Basant

Ravindra Basant

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A prison of­fi­cer has been grant­ed bail in the sum of $100,000 with a sure­ty by a Jus­tice of the Peace.

He is ac­cused of ob­tain­ing mon­ey by false pre­tences.

A TTPS re­lease said Ravin­dra Bas­ant, 24, of Navet, Rio Claro, who is charged with one count of ob­tain­ing the sum of $77,500 by false pre­tences, is to ap­pear in court on De­cem­ber 14, 2022, to face the charges

The TTPS said some­time in 2017, a man pur­chased a Ford Ranger ve­hi­cle from a fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion un­der a hire pur­chase agree­ment. In 2020, the man al­leged­ly sold the ve­hi­cle to a buy­er and re­ceived pay­ment of $77,500.

He al­leged­ly led the buy­er to be­lieve that he was the own­er of the ve­hi­cle and had au­thor­i­ty to sell the ve­hi­cle, which was sup­pos­ed­ly free from all en­cum­brances.

The ve­hi­cle was sub­se­quent­ly re­pos­sessed by the fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion.

The mat­ter was re­port­ed to the Fraud Squad Of­fice, San Fer­nan­do and in­ves­ti­ga­tions were con­duct­ed by a team of Fraud Squad of­fi­cers.

A sus­pect was ar­rest­ed last Mon­day and the man was charged by PC Kissoon.

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