Less than a year after she was sentenced to serve seven years in prison for money laundering, ex-Guyana Revenue Authority employee Michelle Fraser had her conviction overturned by the Full Court.
Sitting in the Full Court were Chief Justice (Ag) Ian Chang and Justice Rishi Persaud, who found, among other things, that the prosecution in the Magistrates’ Court did not prove that Fraser knew that the money she had banked for a woman in the United Kingdom was ill-gotten. As a result, they ordered that Fraser’s conviction and sentence be set aside.
The Chamber of the Director of Public
