JP facing fraud charges

A justice of the peace is now behind bars after being charged on Tuesday by the Fraud Squad of the Jamaica Constabulary Force.

The accused, Georgia Messam-Whyte, 50, a paralegal clerk of Village Green, St Ann, has been charged with fraudulent conversion and engaging in a transaction that involves criminal property.

Reports are that between September 2018 and April 2019, Messam-Whyte received more than $27 million from the complainant to purchase a property, but failed to turn over the funds to the contracted attorney. The police were alerted, an investigation was launched and she was arrested. She is scheduled to appear before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Thursday, February 16.