Retiree allegedly swindles over $2M through overseas work programme

Fifty-six-year-old Phillip Panton, a retiree of Spanish Town, St Catherine, is charged with obtaining money by false pretence and conspiracy to defraud for allegedly swindling persons over $2 million through a fake overseas work programme.

The Spanish Town Criminal Investigations Branch says Panton told a relative he could get him on the programme. 

Between May and July, the relative and other victims reportedly paid $2,190,000 to Panton.

When he allegedly failed to honour the agreement and did not return the money a police report was made.

Panton was then arrested and charged.

His court date is being finalised.

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