A FORMER salesman of Beepat’s was, slapped yesterday with several charges of embezzlement and falsification, when he appeared before Magistrate Judy Latchman. Jason De Florimonte, 26, of Lot 131Pike Street, Kitty, Georgetown, was not required to plead to the indictable offences, particulars of which said,
on seven different counts, between August 1 and October 31, being employed as a clerk or servant at Beepat’s Hardware and Haberdashery Store, he fraudulently embezzled a sum in excess of $1.4M.
In relation to the first falsification offence, it is alleged that, between August 15 and October 31, being employed as a clerk or servant at Beepats Hardware and Haberdashery Store, with intent to defraud, he made or concurred in making a false invoice belonging to his employer, purporting to show that Treasure Parks had ordered a quantity of goods worth $9,946, during the month of August, whereas the sum payable for the merchandise was $25,940.
The second allegation of falsification said, during the same period, he made or concurred in making a false invoice purporting to show that Bibi Deo had ordered goods to the value $52,046 whereas the sum payable for the order was $370,000.
Police Sergeant Vishnu Hunt, prosecuting, told the court that the accused made a report of an alleged robbery but, after a thorough investigation, the charges were recommended by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Attorney-at-law, Mr. James Bond, representing the accused, in a failed bail application, said De Florimonte is the sole breadwinner for his reputed wife and two children and, in the month of October, he was robbed of $1.2M at Beepats and suffered injuries in that robbery.
Bond said salesmen have a risky job, are not given much security and collect money in haversacks.
The lawyer claimed that the accused has cooperated with the police during the investigations only to be greeted yesterday, when he turned up to report, with the charges.
Hunt successfully objected to bail citing on the grounds that the money amounted to over $1.4 M and the fact that the charges are laid indictable if granted bail the accused may not return for his trial.
Bail was refused until December 4.