A nurse who was wanted by police for allegedly operating a Ponzi scheme and falsely obtaining monies from persons, was placed on $180,000 bail.
Thirty-two-year-old Keziah Jeuel Roberts of Lot 88 Eping and Ituni, Bel Air Park, today appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts when she was slapped with four counts of fraud.
She first appeared before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly in Court Two, where she was not required to plead to the first three charges brought against her.
The first charge states that on January 5, at Georgetown, with intent to defraud she
obtained the sum of $80,000 from Lynn Melvin, by falsely pretending that she was in the position to invest the said sum of money and deliver to Melvin the sum of $360,000 within 21 days.
While two other charges allege that on January 8, at Georgetown, with intent to defraud she obtained the sum of $80,000 from Mellisa Rupai and Devika Hiralal by falsely pretending that she was in the position to invest the said sum of money and deliver to each person, the sum of $360,000 within 21 days.
She was placed on $50,000 bail for each of these charges. These matters were adjourned until May 21.
Roberts, was then hauled before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in Court One. There, she was not required to plead to the charge which alleges that she obtained $40,000 from Saskia at Turkeyen East Coast Demerara by falsely pretending that she was in a position to invest the said sum of money and deliver $120,000, within the same time.
She was granted $30,000 bail.
On Monday the police issued a wanted bulletin for Roberts. According to the bulletin, she was wanted by the police for questioning in relation to operating a pyramid scheme and falsely obtaining monies from several Guyanese citizens which occurred between September, 2020 and February, 2021.
