A repeat offender gets another fraud charge
Kaieteur News – A 24-year-old businessman, who had faced court several times over fraud charges, yesterday made another court appearance after being slapped with a new fraud charge.
Accused: Micah Sonaram.
The defendant, Micah Sonaram, of Lot 2273 Flying Fish Street, North Ruimveldt, Georgetown, appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts with his lawyer, Latchmie Rahamat.
He pleaded not guilty to the charge, which claims that on November 4, 2020 in North Road, Georgetown, though he was wholly entrusted with $ 7 million by Steve De Costa to buy and deliver one excavator, he turned over the money for his own use through fraud and benefit.
In her address to the court, Rahamat noted that the charge against her client is not valid, as he had been charged for the same offense during a previous court hearing. The lawyer then applied bail to her client that he be released on reasonable bail.
The police prosecutor then informed the court that the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, SC, had issued a letter to end the previous matter, citing the fact, that Sonaram had been accused by police of under the wrong section of the Criminal. Law Offenses Act.
Chief Magistrate McLennan granted $ 50,000 bail to the defendant and is expected to make his next court appearance on May 10, 2021.
According to reports, last month Sonaram faced three similar charges, after he deceived several people using his social media business page, Parts Zone Gy, which advertises that he is carrying parts and machines.
Before that, he was charged with two charges of fraud, which he allegedly defrauded people of over $ 11 million. During December 2020, he was charged with defrauding a $ 4.5 million businessman and in 2017; he was accused of cheating another man of over $ 5.8 million.