Thursday, May 01, 2014
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) -- A 40 year-old police officer will return to court tomorrow to answer to 100 charges of allegedly defrauding the Police Service of nearly $400,000.
The accused, Elizabeth Hope, a 10-year veteran, was released on $350,000 bail when she appeared before a Port of Spain court on Monday.
She was not called upon to plead to the charges that were laid indictably.
The police alleged that Hope, between 2010 and last March, with the assistance of another accused, Cherisse Austin, who is also before the court, allegedly tendered false bills and receipts of medical services done with an official stamp from a doctor.
Hope, it was alleged, billed the Police Service for medication she reportedly received while she was supposedly undergoing treatment for cancer.
The court was told that Hope had informed the police's Finance Branch that she was ill with cancer and forwarded to them a number of receipts for treatment she allegedly received as well as medication, all purported to have been signed off by a doctor named in the charge.
The prosecution had objected to bail, citing Hope as a flight risk. But her defence lawyer, Keith Scotland, disagreed submitting that his client, who was abroad on 21 days sick leave, had immediately returned to the island after finding out about the investigation against her. more
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