British men in FIU case on bail with lesser charge
Two British men who have been detained in an investigation by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) have now been released on bail and charged with knowingly uttering a false document’.
Stephen Scholes and Terence Stewart have been held for the past four weeks at Anse Boileau police station under serious allegations of forgery and money laundering, in what the FIU described as a “complex case”. The charge now left against them is a major climb down.
The document referred to in the allegation is a copy of a Swift bank transfer for 200 million euros which the men are alleged to have presented to Barclays Bank in Seychelles.
Presenting a copy of the document to the bank may indicate that the men expected a transfer and wanted to see if it had been made, but would not constitute an attempt to rob the bank. Such amounts are typical of the sums promised by conmen who offer to deposit huge sums in one’s bank account, but which actually aim to obtain the person’s bank details to defraud them.
Source: Regar 10-2-09