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Former Bacchus store clerk fined for theft
After spending months on trial at a city court, a former Bacchus drug store clerk implicated in the disappearance of over $32M, was yesterday found guilty and fined on one count of simple larceny.
Twenty four year-old Raphael Laurie of Supply, East Bank of Demerara faces a possible thirty six months imprisonment if he fails to pay the $100,000 fine imposed by Magistrate Judy Latchman at the conclusion of the trial yesterday.
Last year July, Laurie was accused of stealing $80,071 from proprietor Mohamed Bacchus’s at Bacchus Drug Store, Saffon Street, Georgetown.
At his first court hearing, he pleaded not guilty at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
At the end of the trial yesterday, Magistrate Latchman informed Laurie that he was found guilty as charged. She ordered that he either post the fine or serve the prison term.
The convicted man is also facing four other embezzlement charges involving his ex-employer, before Magistrate Ann McLennan.
According to reports, Laurie was employed as a sales clerk with Mohamed ‘Bobby’ Bacchus, proprietor of Bacchus Drug Store and conducted business but reportedly never paid in the proceeds.
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