KINGSTON, Jamaica – Six men accused of fleecing more than CAD$70,000 from an elderly Canadian woman were arrested and charged Tuesday following a series of operations in the Corporate Area.

Five of those in custody have been charged for engaging in a transaction involving criminal property, conspiracy to defraud and obtaining money by false pretense, while one was charged for breaches of the Intellectual Property Act, the police report. Their identities are being withheld to facilitate further investigations.

The police say that with the assistance of international partners, they investigated claims that the elderly woman was defrauded by a group of people involved in the illicit lottery scam.

Investigators from the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch (C-TOC) and the Financial Investigations Division (FID) report that the suspects were nabbed following the investigation and several items of probative value, including computers and documents, were removed from their homes. 

They are to appear in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrates Court on Thursday, November 11.