GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Apr 4, CMC – A 23-year-old unemployed man is due to return to court in May after he was granted GUY$2.4 million (One Guyana dollar=US$0.004 cents) bail on 25 counts of simple larceny and 23 counts of conspiracy to commit computer related fraud.
The prosecution alleges that Shemaiah Ryan aka “Banker” who pleaded not guilty to all of the charges, conspired with persons to make a National Identification Card in the name of Carl Peterken and presented himself to a city bank removing more than GUY$36.4 million from the account.
The victim who has a joint account with his wife at the bank, was never the holder of an ATM card. But the police said the accused while posing as the victim with an ID card in the man’s name, requested an ATM card from the bank in the man’s name and it was granted.
The Police report said the accused later contacted a mother and daughter who were known to him and requested that they allow him to transfer money to their accounts so that they could withdraw it on his behalf, as he claimed he was on a Government contract and could not find time to visit the bank to withdraw money to pay his workers.
The two women agreed and between September 2, 2022 and September 19, 2022, he transferred a total of GUY$17, 997,000 fom the account of the Peterkens into the account of one of the women via internet banking.
The police said he later transferred an additional GUY$13,618,000 from the joint account to the other woman’s account. He reportedly collected the money from the two women.
The Police also reported that on 27 occasions, the man used the ATM card in the name of Carl Peterken to withdraw over GUY$4.8 million from the joint account of the Peterkens at different ATMs.
The police said that on all occasions, he was caught on CCTV doing the ATM withdrawals.
The accused is expected bank in court on May 16.
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