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Attorney charged with fraud

Published:Thursday | July 16, 2020 | 12:00 AM

Fifty-three-year-old attorney Peter Asher is facing several fraud-related charges after being picked up today by detectives assigned to the Fraud Squad of the Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime Investigation Branch .

Asher was charged with forgery, conspiracy to forge National Lubricants and Fuels Limited Company's seal, seven counts of instrument of transfers, and seven counts of causing property to be transferred by means of forged documents.

The charges came following a ruling by the director of public prosecutions.

He was bailed by his own surety in the sum of $1 million and is to appear before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Tuesday, August 4.

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