– and gets bail, too

A GROVE, East Bank Demerara fraudster was on Monday charged for incurring a debt of $1.2M at the Summertime Travel Agency and refusing to pay.

Nezia Persaud, 37, appeared before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman and pleaded not guilty to the charge, which alleged that on July 9 at Cummings Street, she fraudulently obtained from Summertime Travel Agency credit for 10 airline tickets to Barbados valued $1.2M, and refused to pay for them.

A representative from the travel agency, who was present in court, explained that if Persaud does not pay for the tickets, he will be forced to stand the cost out of his own pocket.

The man said the reason the matter reached so far was because Persaud, a professed life coach, kep pushing him around. “All I was getting was promises and promises,” the man said.

Persaud, who readily admitted that she was charged for similar offences before, said:
“It is because I’m taken as a big fraud that he went and reported the matter at the Brickdam Station.”

Magistrate Latchman released the woman on $200,000 bail and adjourned the matter until October 1.

Persaud is also on $400,000 for fraudulently obtaining from one Margaret Daly on October 14, 2016 at Georgetown the sum of $1,295,000 by falsely pretending that she was in a position to construct a low-income house for her.

She is also said to have matters of a similar nature at the Magistrate’s Courts at Anna Regina, Linden and Providence.