The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) today said that it had lodged an appeal against the dismissal of the $600m theft charges against former Public Service Minister Jennifer Westford and her aide Margaret Cummings.
The DPP said that a notice of appeal was filed in the Guyana Court of Appeal on August 30th.
Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman on August 24th dismissed the charges against against the former PPP/C government minister and Cummings for the alleged theft of over $600 million from the former government.
Delivering her highly anticipated ruling in Georgetown, Magistrate Latchman told the two accused that the charges were bad in law as Westford was not a public oficer at the time, and while Cummings was a public officer, there was no evidence to show that the money was taken and not used for its intended purposes.
