Come February 21, 2019, former accountant and clerk attached to the Guyana Gold Board (GGB) will go on trial for allegedly forging documents in order to rob the entity of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

On Friday January 18, 2019, Principal Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus set aside February 21 for commencement of trial into the matters against former accountant Rosanna Ramnarine, 35, of Republic Park, East Bank Demerara, and former clerk, Deborah Forbes, 51, of Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara.

The women were jointly charged on August 6, 2017, and granted $450,000 bail each for conspiracy to commit a felony, larceny by clerk and falsifying of accounts.

The first charge read to Ramnarine and Forbes stated that between January 1, 2017 and February 28, 2017, at the GGB, located at Lot 68 Upper Brickdam, Georgetown, being employed as clerks or servants, they willfully, and with the intent to defraud, falsified a document in possession of the GGB, that is to say, payment advice #80230, purporting to show that Clinton Alphonso, received a payment of $436,409, on January 24, 2017.
The second charge alleged that the women, with intent to defraud the GGB, conspired, with person or persons unknown, to forge GGB payment advice #80230, dated between January 1, 2017 and February 28, 2017.

The third charge stated that the two accused, between January 1, 2017 and February 28, 2017, while being employed as clerks or servants at the GGB, stole $436,409 in monies in the possession and power of the GGB, their employer.

The women were arrested by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) during an investigation at the GGB, since the women allegedly forged several payment vouchers and stole the money.
A handwriting specialist was called in and the women’s signatures were on the forged vouchers.

Ramnarine was charged in July 2018 before Magistrate Fabayo Azore for six similar charges and was released on $300,000 bail.