Registrar of Deeds charged with $4.5m fraud

Registrar of Deeds, Azeena Baksh was charged today with fraudulently causing or procuring valuable securities in the total sum of $4.5 million.
The charge stated that Baksh pretended that she was a contract employee of the Deeds and Commercial Registries and committed the crime between May 1, 2014 and January 31, 2017.
Baksh pleaded not guilty at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to the charge and was granted $250,000 bail.
Her matter will be called again on June 6.

Azeena Baksh