Driver jailed for absconding with boss’s gold, diamonds

Franklin Peters

A driver, who admitted that he took in excess of $1M worth of gold and diamonds instead of delivering them to his boss, will be spending the next three years in prison.

Franklin Peters, 47, of Station Street, Kitty, Georgetown, accepted that after being entrusted with 30 ounces and 12 pennyweights of raw gold and 17 carats of diamonds, valued at $1,140,000, he fraudulently converted them to his own use and benefit instead of delivering them to the owner, Clive Obermuller.

Prosecutor Deniro Jones told Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts that Peters,