Three people are facing charges related to a payroll scheme.
Police say November 2019, a security company made a report that as a result of an audit, they discovered between April 2019 and October 2019, a female employee allegedly falsified the records of the payroll system, by inserting the names of former employees, by putting the banking information of two other suspects who were not employed in the company.
Three suspects including a US citizen appeared before a Master of the High Court yesterday, charged with multiple counts of Larceny.
Amryl Pierre, 36, of Arima, was charged with 24 counts of falsification of accounts and two counts of larceny. She was also jointly charged with Vanessa Brown, 40, a US Citizen, who resides in D’Abadie, with one count of Larceny in the sum of $9,533.28 and Ailan Garcia, 34, of Valencia, with one count of Larceny in the sum of $21,698.58.
The trio appeared before Master Shabana Shah in the Arima High
Court on Monday 13th May, 2024. Pierre was granted bail in the sum of $175,000 with surety to cover all charges. As conditions of bail, she is to reside at her Arima address and report to a police station one day a week between the hours of 6 am and 6 pm.
Brown was granted bail in the sum of $50,000 with surety and is to reside in the D’Abadie district. Her US passport is to be handed over to the Registrar of the High Court by May 15th, 2024 and report to a police station one day every other week.
Meanwhile, Garcia was granted bail in the sum of $65,000 with surety and is to reside in Valencia. He is to report to the Valencia Police Post one day every other week.
All matters were postponed to June 5th, 2024.