Deeds Registrar charged over $4.5M fraud

Azeena Baksh

Registrar of Deeds, Azeena Baksh was yesterday faced with a fraud charge for allegedly authorizing payments to herself amounting to a total of just over $4.5 million.

It was alleged that Baksh, being a pensionable employee of the Judicial Service Commission, between May 1, 2014 and January 31, 2017, at Georgetown, with intent to defraud, caused or procured valuable securities in the total sum of $4,534,486, to be credited to her Bank of Nova Scotia Limited account, by falsely pretending that she was a contracted employee of the Deeds and Commercial Registry.