Ex-special constable charged with $1.5M house lot scam

A former Special Constable in the Guyana Police Force was charged yesterday with defrauding five persons of over $1.5 million by pretending that he could get them house lots.

A Georgetown court heard that Leon Wayne, 35, of Lot 638, Third Street, Kaneville, Grove, East Bank Demerara, carried out the scheme by stating that he was in the position to acquire house lots for them, though he knew this to be false.

The court also heard that he promised house lots at Providence, on the