Registrar of the Deeds registry, Azeena Baksh was on Tuesday (May 23) charged with obtaining money by false pretense.The police’s case is that between May 1st, 2014 and January 31, 2017, in Georgetown, Baksh caused or procured valuable securities in the sum of $4.5M to be delivered to her bank of Novia Scotia account for her own use, by pretending that she was a contracted employee at the Deeds Registry.
Baksh denied the allegations when she appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan, in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court this morning.
Baksh was represented by Attorney-at-Law, Nigel Hughes, who in his bail application told the court that his client is in her final trimester of pregnancy and was ordered to take bed rest. He added that since hearing about the possible charge, his client was cooperating with investigators.
Police Prosecutor Arvin Moore requested bail in a substantial amount and under the condition that she lodges her passport and report to the fraud department of CID every Friday at 9 hours. The Chief Magistrate acceded to his request and granted Baksh bail to the sum of $250,000 dollars.
Thirty-three-year-old Baksh of Eccles East Bank of Demerara will return to court on June 6th.