DETECTIVES attached to the Organised Crime Investigation Division yesterday charged several custom officers and custom brokers for a plethora of breaches of the Larceny Act, following an intensive investigation.

Those charged for fraudulent conversion, conspiracy to defraud and falsification of accounts are custom officers: 32-year-old Valene Davis of a Braeton address in Greater Portmore, 36-year-old Norda Peart of Windsor Heights in Central Village, St. Catherine, and 38-year-old Nash Grant of a Gore Tuca address in Portmore.

Phillip Glenister, the 29-year-old entertainment consultant, the alleged master-mind, has been charged for possession of a forged stamp after it was found in his possession, when the Police searched his Greater Portmore home.

Sabrina Campbell, a 29-year-old custom broker of Frazers Content, also in St Catherine, will answer to the charges of conspiracy to defraud, forgery and fraudulent conversion.

Another custom broker, 52-year-old Washington Wong of an East Amour Heights address in Kingston has been charged for forgery and conspiracy to defraud.

They are all booked to appear in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court today.

The suspected master-mind, accompanied by his attorney, turned himself in to the Police on Wednesday, May 23, and is now in custody.