KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) has charged managing director of Jamus Communications Limited, Peter Sangster, with obtaining money by false pretence, uttering forged documents and forgery.

In a release, MOCA said it is alleged that between January 2011 and August 2013, Sangster solicited and obtained over US$600,000 from the chairman of the company with the promise of providing a waiver for funds owed by the company to the Universal Service Fund (USF).

MOCA said in August 2013 Sangster then presented the promised waiver allegedly signed by the then prime minister of Jamaica. When the document was tendered by the company to the USF for it to be enacted, it was discovered that the signature was forged.

A report was made to MOCA by the company and an investigation into the matter was conducted by detectives from the anti-corruption agency. Sangster was arrested on Tuesday, March 21, this year after a question and answer session.

He will appear in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court this week.