A man and a woman who were Wednesday arrested for allegedly defrauding the City of Kingston Co-operative Credit Union of more than $6 million are scheduled to appear in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court today.

The two:

* Erica Findlay, 31, of Delacree Road, Kingston 11, and

* Richard Brown, 45, a mechanic of Yacca Avenue in Kingston 11, according to the police, defrauded the COK of a total of $6.6 million between 1999 and 2002.

According to the police’s information arm, the Constabulary Communication Network, the money was withdrawn from ATM machines and transferred to their accounts, with $4.1 million going to Brown’s account and $2.5 million to Findlay’s.

They were arrested and charged following investigations by the Fraud Squad.

At the same time, the police reported yesterday that a former manager at the City of Kingston Credit Union who was on bail after she reportedly defrauded the institution of more than $3 million has absconded.

The manager, Joycelyn Francis, was charged with larceny as a servant last December, after she reportedly withdrew $3.2 million from depositor’s CD accounts and lodged it to her account.

Francis, of 7 West in Greater Portmore, was arrested by detectives from the Fraud Squad and was scheduled to appear in the Corporate Area Criminal Court last Thursday. However, she did not appear in court and a warrant was subsequently issued for her arrest.