A US citizen is among three persons charged in connection with a payroll scheme.

36-year-old Amryl Pierre of Arima was charged with 24 counts of falsification of accounts and two counts of larceny.

She was also jointly charged with 40-year-old Vanessa Brown, a US citizen living in D’Abadie, with one count of larceny in the sum of $9,533.28 and 34-year-old Ailan Garcia of Valencia, with one count of larceny in the sum of $21,698.58.

All three appeared before a Master Shabana Shah in the Arima High Court yesterday.

Pierre was granted $175,000 bail, while Garcia was granted $65,000 bail.

Brown was granted $50,000 bail in and ordered to hand over her US passport to the Registrar of the High Court by May 15th, 2024.

The matters were postponed to June 5th 2024.

In November 2019, a security company found out through an audit that between April 2019 and October 2019, a female employee had allegedly falsified the records of the payroll system – she allegedly inserted the names of former employees, by putting the banking information of two other suspects, knowing they were not entitled to the salaries.

The suspects’ accounts were credited and the sums withdrawn.