Pyramid scheme mastermind slapped with 15 additional fraud charges

Keziah Jeuel Roberts, a nursing assistant and the alleged mastermind behind a pyramid scheme, was on Friday slapped with an additional 15 fraud charges.
The Bel Air Park, Georgetown resident made her appearance before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court and pleaded not guilty to 13 of the charges.

Following her plea, she was ordered to post bail in the sum of $500,000. However, this sum was reduced to $350,000 after her attorney told the court that she was previously released on $180,000 bail for similar charges, which are currently before the court.
The matter has been adjourned to May 21.
Roberts also appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan, where she was required to answer the other two charges. Here, again, the defendant denied the charges and was placed on $110,000 bail. The Chief Magistrate has since transferred the two matters to the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court for hearing on May 7.
Roberts was charged with four counts of obtaining money by false pretence when she made her first court appearance on April 16. She was charged for collecting a total of $280,000 from four different individuals under the pretence of investing same.
She was not required to plead to the indictable charges, and was released on bail in the sum of $180,000.
Roberts was also ordered to lodge her passport and to report to the Special Organised Crime Unit until the conclusion of the matter.
Based on reports received, Roberts had registered a business under the name ‘Kapital Kare Investment’ with the Registrar of Companies, and had posted a business flyer on her Facebook page, enticing persons to invest in her company.
These persons were asked to invest the sum of $40,000 with the intention of receiving a return of $180,000 within 21 days of their investment.
Several persons had reportedly invested various sums of money in her company, and never received their capital or returns as promised. As a result, the matter was reported to the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) of the Guyana Police Force and a ‘wanted’ bulletin was issued for her arrest.
Following the release of the ‘wanted’ bulletin on April 13, Roberts, accompanied by her attorney, visited SOCU, where she was arrested and later brought before the court.