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A businesswoman from Arima has appeared in court charged with defrauding three people of $279,400 in a car sale scam.
Rianne Fuchong, the owner of Riri’s Marketing of Tumpuna Road in Arima, appeared in the Port-of-Spain Magistrate’s Court on three larceny charges yesterday.
She is accused of defrauding three people of $161,400, $100,000 and $18,000 between April and August 2015.
The money represented downpayments for foreign-used vehicles that Fuchong was purporting to sell.
The victims reported Fuchong to the Fraud Squad after vehicles were not delivered as promised and she repeatedly failed to refund them.
Fuchong was arrested by police at her home during an anti-crime exercise on Monday.
The investigation was conducted by Senior Supt Totaram Dookie, Cpls Jamillia Joseph-Francis and Ricardo Toney and WPC Efaye Jointe.
Fuchong will reappear in court next month.
