Brazilian businesswoman slapped with fraud charge

The charge against Brazilian Businesswoman Buenos De Roacha read that, with intention to defraud, and knowing the document she was tendering was forged, she uttered to Police Constable Kevin King a forged birth certificate in favour of herself, purporting to show that same was issued by the General Registrar Office.
The offence was allegedly committed on August 30, 2017 at the Central Passport and Immigration Office; and on Thursday, August 31, before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, De Roacha entered a not guilty plea in regard to the allegation.
According to her defence counsel, the fifty-two-year-old mother of three is a Brazilian national who has a fixed place of abode in Alberttown, Georgetown; and does not pose any risk of flight on the basis that she has, with her husband, been (jointly) operating a restaurant in the city for the past ten years, which he posited is an indication of strengthening bonds with the country, rather than having a desire to flee same.
But Police Prosecutor Arvin Moore strongly opposed the defendant being placed on bail, arguing that the seriousness of the offence, coupled with the insecurity of the Guyana/Brazil border which facilitates easy cross-border travel, and especially considering that the defendant is a Brazilian national, ought to preclude the defendant being placed on bail.
Moore attested that the woman did not follow through with the legal process of acquiring the birth certificate document, opting rather to transact business with someone she had met at the restaurant, who had promised to acquire for her the certificate free of cost.
He said investigations had also revealed that a Guyanese Identification Card (ID) had been obtained in favour of the accused, and he said De Roacha may just find herself before the Georgetown Magistrates Courts once more if the ID is found to be forged as well.
De Roacha has nevertheless been placed on 0,000 bail, and her matter has been transferred to the court of Magistrate Fabayo Azore, where it will be called again on September 13, 2017.