November 16, 2024
Ocho Rios, St. Ann. Jamaica
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St Ann JP Charged With Fraud In Land Deal

A St Ann JP is behind bars after she was charged with fraud involving
$27 Million.
Charged is fifty-year-old Georgia Messam-Whyte, a paralegal clerk
and Justice of the Peace (JP) of Village Green, St. Ann.
She was charged on Tuesday, February 7 by the Fraud Squad for the
offences of fraudulent conversion and engaging in a transaction that
involves criminal property.
Reports are that between September 2018 and April 2019, Messam-
Whyte received over J$27 million from the complainant to purchase
a property, but failed to turn over the funds to the contracted
attorney.
The police were alerted, an investigation was launched and Messam-
Whyte was arrested. She is scheduled to appear before the Kingston
and St. Andrew Parish Court on Thursday, February 16.