MOCA describes multi-million-dollar fraud among the most elaborate and highly sophisticated
25 January 2026
The Major Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Agency (MOCA) has described the multi-million dollar fraud affecting several financial institutions islandwide as one of the most elaborate, highly sophisticated, fraud schemes ever seen.
Three persons have been charged in relation to the fraud.
Director of Communications at MOCA, Major Basil Jarrett says the fraud involved submission of fraudulently obtained genuine documents and fraudulent identification documents.
The fraud allegedly involved the use of identities of multiple individuals with varying occupations to bypass security protocols and identity confirmation measures at a number of institutions in the financial sector, between January 2023 and April 2024.
Major Jarrett says the suspects relied on unprecedented levels of identity manipulation to defeat institutional safeguards and defraud legitimate financial institutions of hundreds of millions of dollars.
He states that the arrests and charges represent a breakthrough in a very unique fraud case that has been under investigation by MOCA and the Financial Investigations Division (FID), for over 18 months.
The three were nabbed following a series of coordinated operations across several parishes between January 13 and 16.
30-year-old Chloe Douett, a medical doctor of Cherry Gardens, Kingston, is charged with uttering forged documents, demanding property on forged documents, conspiracy to defraud and failure to safely store a firearm.
29-year-old Ivana Campbell, an Executive Assistant of Portmore St. Catherine and 44-year-old Dwayne Pitter, of Olympic Gardens, Kingston, are charged with breaches of the proceeds of crime act, the larceny act, the forgery act, the law reform (fraudulent transactions) (special provisions) act, as well as conspiracy to defraud at common law.
