Guyanese woman found guilty of BVI forgery

A Guyanese woman living in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), has been found guilty of forging a document in an attempt to have visa applications by relatives for Canada and the US turned down.

She is to be sentenced tomorrow by Senior Magistrate Valerie Stephens.

According to a report in the BVI Platinum News, the magistrate did not find Anna Sircaklus and her husband to be credible witnesses and she also found that the woman had given her confession statement to the police voluntarily.

The prosecution’s case revealed that the woman in July of 2006, whilst working at Data Pro, forged a letter on the official stationery of Fortis Prime Fund Solutions (BVI) Ltd and sent copies of the letter by fax to the US Embassy in Barbados and the Canadian High Com-mission in Trinidad.

The letters were faxed with the intention of causing the missions to deny the visa applications of Mr and Mrs Sukhram-Omrao.

The report said that the Guyanese woman wanted the visa applications by the two turned down out of jealousy as her attempts to obtain visas for both countries were unsuccessful.

Her relatives had resided in the BVI at the time. It was proven that on the date the faxes were sent the woman was the only employee at work authorised to use the fax machine.

The letters she sent had indicated that her relatives had intended not to return to the BVI or Guyana if granted the visas.