RAY Farrier, 51, of Kuru Kuru, along Soesdyke/Linden Highway has been charged with obtaining money by false pretence.

He appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday and pleaded not guilty.

Particulars of the offence said, last September 11, with intent to defraud, Farrier obtained $1M from Francisco Da Silva, by pretending to be Raymond Godfrey, owner of a house and that he was in a position to sell.

The virtual complainant told the Court the defendant showed him the transport and other documents concerning the property but, when he went there, he found a family in occupation of the place owned by a man in Barbados.

But Defence Counsel Vic Puran, claiming that the defendant never received any money, requested reasonable bail and the magistrate fixed the sum of $1M, before transferring the case to another Court for October 19.