Woman to face court for $2M cheque

Police said that on that day, she went to the Mayaro branch of Republic Bank and attempted to deposit the cheque and was arrested by Mayaro police after the fraud was detected by bank officials.

A team of officers including Cpls Badree and Bachew, coordinated by Snr Supt Totaram Dookhie and supervised by ASP Ghisiyawan, carried out investigations and discovered the woman recently deposited a cheque in the sum of $90,000 at the Independence Square branch of Republic Bank.

In an unrelated case, a 29-yearold Laventille man will appear before a Port of Spain magistrate today to answer charges for the kidnapping of San Fernando businessman Gregory Laing. He was charged on Saturday after being arrested along with nine other men following intense investigations by officers of the Anti Kidnapping Unit.

Since the arrest, two men have been released after Justice Ricky Rahim ordered them freed as no charges were brought against them and their attorneys filed writs of Habeas Corpus.

Laing, 53, was taken from the San Fernando branch of his business, Puff n’ Stuff bakery. Relatives were contacted and dropped off $30,000 in the Beetham Estate and $240,000 in Barataria. He was released unharmed along the Beetham Highway.