Court clerk remanded on $3M theft charge

TIFFANY Peters of Lot 33 Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara, was remanded to prison yesterday on a charge of larceny by clerk.

Before Magistrate Faith McGusty, the 23-year-old defendant was charged indictably with having, between February and September 2012, being employed as a clerk at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, stole the sum of $3,045,000, property of the State of Guyana.
Police Corporal Seon Blackman, prosecuting, said the accused was a clerk (cashier) at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court in the Maintenance Section.
He added that her job entailed writing up maintenance/affiliations cards and cash composition book and collecting from persons paying money during the period February 7 to September 11, 2012.
The Prosecutor said Peters stole the $3,045,000 and he successfully objected to bail for the accused, stating that she may pose a flight risk, since she had been on the run for over a year and was apprehended by the Police in a sting operation.
The case will be called, again, on November 26.

(By Geeta Rampersaud)