Superintendent Lorraine Saul, Deputy Commander of Division 4 (B), was on Friday formally read the multiple charges brought against her following the uncovering of a multimillion dollar fraud in the Guyana Police Force’s Finance Department.
Saul, who was absent when the charges were read to her co-accused because she was out of the jurisdiction, appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in Georgetown, where the indictable charges were read to her.
She was placed on a total of $680,000 bail and she is expected to return to court on June 18.
Saul is charged alongside Officer-in-Charge at the Police Finance Department (ag.), Assistant Superintendent Kurt Smith. They are facing two joint conspiracy-to-commit-a-felony charges.
The first charge alleges that between December 18, 2020, and December 28, 2020, in Georgetown, they conspired with each other and other persons to falsify a payment of $1,350,000. The second charge alleges that between December 18, 2020, and December 28, 2020, at Georgetown, together, they conspired with each other and other persons to falsify the payment of $465,000.
Two counts of falsification of accounts charges were also brought against Saul. Saul is also jointly charged with Police Finance Officer, Superintendent Marcelene Washington, and Deputy Superintendent Frank Jackman-Wilburg. Altogether, the trio is charged with conspiring with each other and other persons to falsify an account, being the feeding account in the sum of $2,246,400, in relation to meals purportedly issued by the Felix Austin Police College Mess to ranks who performed fixed point duty at the Mounted Branch between the period October 16, 2020 and October 31, 2020. It was also alleged that the trio also did the same in the sum of $1.4 million.
Saul also was slapped with two individual counts of falsification of accounts.
Saul also faces a joint charge with Washington and former Deputy Finance Officer Assistant Superintendent Roxanne Griffith-Adams. The charge states that between November 2, 2020 and Novem-ber 24, 2020, Griffith-Adams, Washington and Saul, conspired with each other and with other persons, while being employed at the Guyana Police Force, to falsify an account, being a feeding account in the sum of $1.1 million in relation to meals purportedly provided by the Tactical Services Unit to officers and Inspectors who performed fixed-point duty at the Tactical Services Unit from October 16 to October 31, 2020.
Saul’s co-accused have been placed on bail as well.
SOCU has instituted charges of the same nature against a number of GPF members after an investigation was conducted by the Auditor General’s Office.
