Tag: fraud

Jamaican arrested over credit card con

Jamaican arrested over credit card con

| 26/09/2023

(CNS): A Jamaican man who was arrested earlier this month for a credit card con, in which he scammed a local food delivery app, has been remanded in custody after appearing in court Monday. Davoy Palmer (25) is accused of fraud after he used multiple aliases to make the purchases. He was arrested on 14 […]

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Douglas comes clean in latest criminal scam

Douglas comes clean in latest criminal scam

| 28/08/2023 | 22 Comments

(CNS): Judith Douglas (58) entered more than 30 guilty pleas in Grand Court Friday after the serial con artist admitted she had scammed almost three dozen people into giving her a deposit or rent advances for an apartment in Diaz Lane in George Town. Douglas took over $30,000 from people who believed they had secured […]

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Serial con woman faces list of fraud charges

Serial con woman faces list of fraud charges

| 15/06/2023

(CNS): Judith Douglas, who has a history of conning people out of their cash, is facing a new set of charges. The 57-year-old George Town woman, who was recently released from prison, having served a sentence for a massive Caymanian status fraud, is now facing 36 counts of obtaining property by deception in a rental […]

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Watson and Blake jailed in CIFA fraud case

Watson and Blake jailed in CIFA fraud case

| 19/04/2023 | 65 Comments

(CNS): Former CIFA and CONCACAF executives Canover Watson and Bruce Blake were both sent to jail by Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale on Wednesday, following their conviction in October last year in relation to a football fraud. While Watson was handed an eight-year term, reflecting his leading role in the fraud and money laundering, Bruce Blake […]

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Lawyers urge leniency for Watson and Blake

Lawyers urge leniency for Watson and Blake

| 17/03/2023 | 83 Comments

(CNS): Attorneys representing Canover Watson (52) and Bruce Blake (51) urged leniency for their clients on Thursday as they argued that the convictions against the two men in a football-related fraud were not the most serious crimes of their kind, as prosecutors had contended. Watson is facing a potentially long sentence after he was convicted […]

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Men admit their part in $500k turtle farm fraud

Men admit their part in $500k turtle farm fraud

| 06/03/2023 | 46 Comments

(CNS): Two men have pleaded guilty to fraud and two others have been released by the court in a long-running corruption case relating to the Cayman Turtle Centre (CTC). Prosecutors said Monday that they had accepted pleas entered by Mark Manderson (41) and Jeremy Williams (39) in relation to a conspiracy in which Manderson is […]

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Football execs found guilty in fraud case

Football execs found guilty in fraud case

| 28/10/2022 | 123 Comments

(CNS): Canover Watson has been found guilty of all charges against him in the football fraud case, while his colleague and friend, Bruce Blake, has been found guilty of two of the four charges against him for his part in the scam against CONCACAF. After a twelve-week trial, the jury returned their unanimous verdict on […]

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Attorneys battle over truth in Watson-Blake case

Attorneys battle over truth in Watson-Blake case

| 14/10/2022

(CNS): Canover Watson and Bruce Blake are both liars, prosecuting counsel Eloise Marshall KC told a jury this week as she summed up the crown’s case against the two men, who are accused of scamming $1.5 million from the regional football association, CONCACAF, and of laundering the cash almost a decade ago. But Dapinder Singh […]

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Blake denies laundering Watson’s ‘stolen’ cash

Blake denies laundering Watson’s ‘stolen’ cash

| 12/10/2022

(CNS): Bruce Blake, a former football executive with both CIFA and CONCACAF, has denied money laundering and false accounting in relation to a scheme where, prosecutors say, he helped his colleague Canover Watson hide more than $1.5 million, the proceeds of scam invoices for football kit. Blake claimed the work he did for Canover Watson […]

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‘I’m innocent’ claims Watson after week on stand

‘I’m innocent’ claims Watson after week on stand

| 06/10/2022

(CNS): Former local business leader and regional football executive Canover Watson told a jury that he was the innocent party in the prosecution’s $1.5 million football fraud case against him and his former CIFA and CONCACAF colleague, Bruce Blake. After a week giving evidence on his own behalf, Watson accused anti-corruption investigators of bias and […]

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Auditors flagged $1.2M unsecured CIFA ‘loans’

Auditors flagged $1.2M unsecured CIFA ‘loans’

| 01/09/2022

(CNS): A director with Rankin Berkower, which conducted the Cayman Islands Football Association’s audits, explained to a jury this week how he spotted red flags in the 2014 annual review of CIFA’s books and reported his concerns to the Anti-Corruption Commission. As the trial of Canover Watson and Bruce Blake on charges of fraud and […]

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