The two representatives from Accelerated Capital Firm Inc. (ACFI), a company which is alleged to have operated a Ponzi scheme here, were yesterday remanded to prison on conspiracy charges.
Yuri Garcia Dominguez, a 34-year-old Cuban national, and his wife, Ateeka Ishmael, 32, both of Track A, Coldingen, East Coast Demerara, yesterday appeared before two Magistrate’s Courts where they were faced with 19 charges of conspiring with other persons to obtain monies by false pretence.
Magistrate Melissa Mittelholzer, attached to the Vigilance Magistrate’s Court, granted the two defendants bail in the sum of $3,900,000 on 13 of the charges.
