Arrest warrant issued for alleged fraudster

Neil Benjamin of Lot 254 Section C Enterprise, East Coast Demerara, who earlier this month was arraigned before Georgetown Magistrate Leron Daly on a fraud charge detailing that, between October 7, 2017 and February 28, 2018, he obtained $725,000 from Keisha Cameron by falsely pretending that he was in position to purchase a Toyota Allion motorcar for her, knowing same to be false, has had a warrant issued for his arrest on Friday after he failed to make a court appearance to answer the charge of fraud.
The matter will continue later in this month.

RECAP
According to the Prosecution’s case, on July 6, 2017, Keisha Cameron had a conversation with 52-year-old Neil Benjamin, a Guyana Power and Light (GPL) sub-contractor, in which she told him she wanted to purchase a used motorcar.
The woman was reportedly advised by Benjamin to purchase a new car instead, provided that she allowed him to take her to his auto dealer. Facts related that the woman gave Benjamin $170,000 as a down-payment on the vehicle, for which she was never given a receipt. On two other occasions he allegedly collected other monies from Cameron, totalling $725,000.
The Prosecution’s case is that after several months had passed, the woman inquired about the motorcar, only to be later told that Benjamin had never made any down payment for the vehicle.
A report was made to the Police and the contractor was arrested and charged.
The Police prosecutor had objected to Benjamin being placed on bail, and had informed the court that Benjamin had previously been charged for matters of a similar nature and was presently before the court.
He was, however, placed on $200,000 bail.