NASSAU-Police on Thursday charged a second suspect in the theft of $850,000 from the Securities Commission.
Businessman Damalus Curry, 39, of Old Fort Bay, made an initial appearance before Deputy Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes on claims that he gave the forged Securities Commission cheque to Jeremy Pinder on January 6.
Prosecutors say Pinder, a car wash operator, deposited the $850,000 cheque to an RBC account on January.
Once the cheque cleared, Pinder allegedly moved $800,000 of the illegally obtained money to accounts outside of the country. And he allegedly withdrew $49,600 from a local account.
Pinder denied those charges at his arraignment on March 9.
Both Pinder and Curry are scheduled to appear before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson Pratt on June 25.
The magistrate remanded Forbes into custody on charges of possession of a forged document and uttering a forged document.
However, Curry posted $20,000 bail in the Supreme Court soon after his arraignment. He was already on $25,000 bail on claims of money laundering.
On March 3, Curry denied charges helped attorney Elma Campbell-Chase and her son, Che Chase, launder $465,000 of the $1.2 million they allegedly stole from the Ministry of Tourism. They allegedly obtained the money by cashing a fraudulent cheque Ministry of Tourism cheque in September 2019.
