CITY Magistrate Leron Daly will today hear the probation reports regarding three women found guilty of fraudulently converting in excess of $48M from Telecom Solutions (Guyana) Inc.The women: Melissa Naughton, 39, of Robert Street, Better Hope, ECD; Candacie Marshall, 26, of North Ruimveldt, Georgetown; and Oladara Christian, 28, of Shell Road, Kitty, Georgetown, had in 2011 been charged with the offence.

The charge stated that between June 25, 2008 and November 23, 2009, they conspired together with other persons to embezzle in excess of $48M in credit from Telecom Solutions Inc. The trio had initially pleaded not guilty and a trial had commenced.

The trio was found guilty by the Magistrate on August 31, 2016 after it was found that the prosecution had proven its case against the women beyond reasonable doubt.

The women’s lawyers — Adrian Thompson, Ronald Burch-Smith and Everton Singh Lammy — had requested probation reports on the women. In 2011, the trio worked at the company. Naughton and Christian were employed as cashiers at the time, and they were responsible for selling large amounts of Digicel credit via a computerised system. Marshall was the person who allegedly, from time to time, solicited the customers.

The two cashiers had invalidated several transactions which were written off, after which they would revalidate those transactions and sell them to persons and receive the proceeds for themselves.

Police, during their investigation, discovered that the transactions (air time) were sold to persons by the number three accused, but the money was never placed into the company’s account.