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A 59-year-old man has been charged with obtaining money by means of false pretence, operating an employment agency without a licence and breach of the consumer protection act following an incident along Knutsford Boulevard, Kingston 5 last year.
Police said the man Harvey Dawkins of Mount Royal Estate, St Catherine purported to be a businessman who had ties to a government agency and told the woman that he can get her on an overseas work programme.
The woman gave Dawkins her Jamaican passport, several other documents and paid him a total of four hundred and thirty five thousand dollars $435,000.00 in several installments.
To date, the woman has not gone on the overseas work programme nor has her money been returned.
Dawkins was apprehended during a police operation and was subsequently charged following a question and answer Interview which was conducted in the presence of his attorney.
He is scheduled to appear before the Corporate Area Parish Court on Wednesday, September 11.
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