RBTT fraud accused cross-examine manager

Bank manager Catherine Hannays, the last witness to testify in the RBTT fraud matter, was recalled Wednesday to be cross-examined by the two accused. Two men are charged with defrauding RBTT of nearly $500,000 and are before Port-of-Spain Magistrate Ejenny Espinet at the city’s First Court. Charged are former RBTT employee Dane Lewis, of Mc Carthy Street, St Augustine, and Balliram Seepersad of Dinsley Main Road, Tacarigua.

The charges are that between June 5 and July 27, 2002, Lewis conspired with Seepersad to defraud the RBTT branch on Independence Square, Port-of-Spain, of $462,000. Seepersad is charged separately for using a document to obtain money under false pretense, forging a withdrawal form and obtaining money from RBTT bank by pretending to be Azard Edoo. Both men were arrested and charged by acting Insps David and Harper, and they remain unrepresented in the matter. The matter was adjourned to  September 8.