Two peo­ple ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Sarah De Sil­va at the High Court on Thurs­day, No­vem­ber 14, charged with cor­rup­tion and fraud-re­lat­ed of­fences re­lat­ed to a ve­hi­cle trans­fer. 

Ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), Ram­nar­ine-Parsan vis­it­ed the Li­cens­ing Au­thor­i­ty in Ca­roni on April 6, 2022, to trans­fer a ve­hi­cle's ti­tle to her name. She sub­mit­ted a pur­chase re­ceipt and a No­tice of Change of Own­er­ship form, both al­leged­ly signed by the reg­is­tered own­er.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed that the reg­is­tered own­er had died eight months be­fore the trans­fer. Fur­ther­more, the ve­hi­cle was not present at the com­pound as re­quired by law. The clerk who con­duct­ed the trans­fer al­leged­ly signed a doc­u­ment claim­ing to have seen the ve­hi­cle, de­spite know­ing it was ab­sent.

Sudesh Rad­hakissoon faced a charge of mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice, while Shantie Ram­nar­ine-Parsan faced two counts of ut­ter­ing forged doc­u­ments. Rad­hakissoon was grant­ed $100,000 bail with sure­ty. Ram­nar­ine-Parsan re­ceived $200,000 bail with sure­ty for both charges, was or­dered to sur­ren­der her pass­port, and must re­port week­ly to the Cou­va Po­lice Sta­tion.

The TTPS warned the pub­lic against en­gag­ing in un­law­ful trans­ac­tions, em­pha­siz­ing strict pros­e­cu­tion for vi­o­la­tions.