JCF accounting clerk found guilty of allowance fraud scheme
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A senior accounting clerk employed by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) was recently found guilty of undertaking a fraudulent allowance scheme.
Gwendolyn Ward was convicted of multiple counts of falsification of accounts, forgery, and embezzlement in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Friday, March 13, the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) disclosed in a release today.
MOCA said the matter arose from an investigation launched in 2015 following a report from the police’s Finance Branch into a fraudulent allowance scheme involving JCF personnel.
The agency said investigators established that at least four police officers improperly received allowances totalling more than $4.5 million, with Ward falsifying official records and forging colleagues’ signatures to facilitate the unlawful payments.
She was convicted by Parish Court Judge Chester Crooks and is scheduled to be sentenced on April 10.
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