Written By Geeta Rampersaud
FIFTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD accountant Robindranauth Seenarine, of Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday ordered to post $250,000 bail on a charge of embezzlement before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
The accused was charged indictably with having, between February 1 and July 1, being employed as a clerk at Metro Office and Computer Supply, embezzled the sum of $10,758,098. Police Corporal Bharat Mangru, prosecuting, did not object to pre-trial freedom for the accused but requested that he lodge his passport and report to the subordinate officer at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters, Eve Leary, Georgetown, every Friday at 08:00hrs.
The Prosecutor said Seenarine has been cooperating with Police and he was instructed to return to Court on November 15.
Attorney-at-law Mr. Yoganand Persaud, for the accused, informed the Court that Seenarine has been an accountant for more then 25 years and was working at Metro for 13 years.
The lawyer claimed that Seenarine is the victim of an Internet scam but “is willing to work things out.”