Mohan Jahabadeen, a 53-year-old resident of Herstelling, East Bank of Demerara, was on Wednesday brought before the court of Magistrate Fabayo Azore, to face charges which alleged he tricked a business partner into purchasing lands in Essequibo. 
Details of the case state that on July 9, 2017, at Herstelling, Jahabadeen fraudulently obtained $4 million from Virtual Complainant (VC) Roopchand Maraj under the pretence that he was in a position to sell 11.5 acres of rice land in Leguan, Essequibo River.
The father of two pleaded not guilty to the offence and was granted bail in the sum of $150,000 after the Prosecutor did not object to bail being granted.
This case will be called for continuation on November 22 before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Meanwhile, a 40-year-old man of Wales, West Bank Demerara, was ordered to pay a fine of $25,000 or serve a default of three months in prison after he pleaded guilty to a fraud charge.
Sunil Persaud is accused of making and signing a false statement, purporting that he was “Ronald Persaud”, for the purpose of securing a Guyanese passport on February 1, 2016, at the Central Immigration and Passport Office in Georgetown.
According to the prosecution’s case, the defendant was at the time the holder of a Republic of Guyana Passport which became damaged. Police Prosecutor Simone Payne related that the accused visited the passport office and sought to ‘fix’ his travel document but became discouraged when he was told that the process would take three months. The impatient defendant subsequently borrowed a birth certificate in favour of Ronald Persaud and used same to apply for a new passport which was successfully issued to him shortly hereafter.
It would not be long before the authorities caught up with him and he was arrested and charged with the present offence.
