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Deeds Registry cashier arrested for fraud

Sep 15, 2012 News

A cashier attached to the Deeds Registry is in police custody following the discovery of a fraud. The matter surfaced on Wednesday when a lawyer conducting a routine transaction handed some $300,000 to a clerk as payment.
The clerk took the money to the cashier who issued a receipt. This would have passed unnoticed had the lawyer not returned to the court to collect some documents related to his transaction. When he approached the supervisor of the registry, it transpired that the document had disappeared.
A subsequent examination of the receipt found that it had been issued from a book not in use at the registry. And that book went missing during the investigation.
Immediately, Registrar Azeena Baksh called in the police who promptly arrested the cashier.
When contacted, Ms Baksh declined to comment on the fraud. All she would say was that irrespective of political or trade union affiliation or friendship or contacts, she would not condone corruption.
“Corruption in the Registry has to be curtailed. No contact or friend would influence any decision that I make. This registry has to account to the public and to the auditors.”
During this investigation, the registry found that there were three prior transactions that involved false receipts.
The cashier was appointed through the Public Service Commission in July.

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