A wife of a police officer appeared in court yesterday on 440 charg
Tinisha Gosine-Ramdass was also jointly charged with her husband, Insp Darryl Ramdass, on nine charges in contravention of the Wildlife Act for being in possession of protected birds.
Of the 440 charges laid, the largest number of charges to be laid against someone by the Fraud Squad, 126 were on money laundering offences, 127 on falsifying accounts and 127 on larceny servant in the sum of $2.8 million.
Gosine-Ramdass, of Princes Town, appeared yesterday before Justice of the Peace, Ackbar Khan. She was remanded in custody to reappear before a Princes Town magistrate today.
The charges were laid by Sgt Samuel of the Fraud Squad following an investigation led by Snr Supt Totaram Dookhie.
Ramdass, 46, a detective attached to the Organised Crime, Firearms and Narcotics Bureau was arrested at the Piarco International Airport last Thursday after his office, based at the airport, was searched.
Gosine-Ramdass was subsequently arrested at her south home. They were charged after six days in custody.
Ramdass appeared before Magistrate Nanette Forde-John in the Port-of-Spain Magistrate’s Court charged with being in possession of five macaws, two toucans and two parrots without having relevant permits.
He was allowed to continue on the bail which was granted to him at the police station and ordered to reappear before the Princes Town Magistrate’s Court today. Ramdass has over 22 years service.
Ramdass was charged by detectives from the Fraud Squad shortly after they were served with a writ of habeas corpus requesting them to justify his prolonged detention.
The writ was due to come up for hearing in the Port-of-Spain High Court yesterday but was abandoned after investigators charged Ramdass and released him on bail.
Ramdass was represented by attorney Criston J Williams.