Mining company employees charged over laterite fraud

Myrvin George (left) and Daniel Baker (right)

Two employees of Adamantium Holdings were yesterday charged with fraudulently obtaining $1.152 million from the company which had been intended for the delivery of 64 truckloads of laterite. 

Forty-four-year-old Myrvin George, of Victoria Avenue, Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD), and Daniel Baker, of Mahaica Park, East Coast Demerara (ECD) were before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court. They were not required to plead to the charge which alleges that between October 31 and December 10, at Lot 16 Sublot ‘A’ Mudlot Kingston, Georgetown, with the intent to defraud, they obtained the sum of $1,152,000 from Adamantium Holdings by falsely pretending they delivered 64 truckloads of laterite, knowing same to be false.