The TTPS has disclosed that DANIEL WILSON, the 48-year-old director of a construction company, was granted $250,000 bail with a surety yesterday, March 25. He appeared virtually before Master of the High Court, Shabiki Cazabon, charged with seven counts of uttering a forged document and attempting to obtain $10,125,000.28 by false pretence.

According to the TTPS, WILSON was ordered by Master Cazabon to report to the St. Joseph Police Station thrice a week as part of his bail conditions. The matter was postponed to July 18th, 2024.

WILSON was arrested on March 20th by officers attached to the Tunapuna Police Station and later charged on March 23rd by PC Groome, of the Fraud Squad, who was the lead investigator into a police report made by a financial institution.

According to the police report, on March 5th, 2024, a man entered a commercial bank in Tunapuna where he allegedly presented a cheque from the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and other contract documents purporting to be from the Ministry of Works and Transport, to open an account.

The documents were accepted as genuine however they were later discovered to be fraudulent.