Housing Ministry impersonator charged with obtaining money by false pretence

Andre DeFreitas

A man who was recently arrested for posing as an employee of the Ministry of Housing/Central Planning and Housing Authority and purporting to be in a position to sell plots of land to other persons was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $250,000.

Andre DeFreitas, 29, of Lot 159 Cow Pen Street, Eccles, East Bank Demerara (EBD), and also of Dia-mond, EBD, appeared before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with obtaining money by false pretence.