More charges for man accused of involvement in multimillion-dollar fraud schemes against financial institutions
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The article describes multiple fraud charges under Jamaican anti-corruption and proceeds-of-crime laws, tied to MOCA and other state investigative units and alleges large-scale theft from financial institutions. It directly concerns criminal financial misconduct and government accountability through formal investigations and prosecutions.
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More charges have been laid against Dwayne Pitter, one of three persons accused of defrauding several financial institutions of millions of dollars.
A total of 36 counts under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA), the Law Reform (Fraudulent Transactions) (Special Provisions) Act, the Forgery Act, and conspiracy to defraud at common law have been laid against the Olympic Gardens, St Andrew resident, the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) reported on Friday.
Pitter is already facing similar offences.
He, along with 30-year-old medical doctor Chloe Douett of Cherry Gardens, St Andrew, and 29-year-old executive assistant Ivana Campbell of Portmore, St Catherine, was arrested in January during a series of coordinated operations involving MOCA, the Financial Investigations Division (FID), the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch (CTOC), and the Montego Bay and Ferry police.
Pitter, Douett, and Campbell are alleged to be part of an organised criminal syndicate that carried out elaborate and highly sophisticated multimillion-dollar fraud schemes against several banks and financial institutions between January 2023 and April 2024.
It is alleged that they submitted fraudulently obtained genuine documents as well as forged identification documents.
According to MOCA, the three allegedly assumed the identities of multiple individuals with varying occupations in order to bypass security protocols and identity confirmation measures at several financial institutions.
Douett is facing charges of uttering forged documents, demanding property on forged documents, conspiracy to defraud, and failure to safely store a firearm.
Campbell and Pitter have been charged with breaches of the Proceeds of Crime Act, the Larceny Act, the Forgery Act, and the Law Reform (Fraudulent Transactions) (Special Provisions) Act, as well as conspiracy to defraud at common law.
It is alleged that the financial institutions were fleeced of more than $600 million through a series of fraudulent transactions.
According to Major Basil Jarrett, Director of Communications at MOCA, “It is important to clarify at this stage that the three persons charged so far are implicated in multiple separate investigations but have been charged jointly in some of them. The investigation is ongoing, as is our commitment to prosecuting those responsible to the maximum extent of the law.”
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