A couple yesterday appear-ed before a city court on a charge that they defrauded a supplier of over half a million worth of groceries.
Cleva France, 31, and John Freeman, 37, of 214 Middle Road, La Peni-tence, pleaded not guilty to the charge that on July 14, at Bourda, Georgetown, with intent to defraud, they obtained a quantity of groceries, worth $543,200 from Basdeo Jodha, on the claim that they would pay triple the amount of the cost for the goods, knowing same to be false.
Attorney Clyde Forde, who represented France and Freeman, told Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan that his clients would usually take
