NATIONAL Housing Trust (NHT) manager Ann-Marie Connallie and her six co-accused who are charged in relation to the alleged theft of money from the accounts of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and other politicians were ordered fingerprinted when they appeared in court on Thursday.

Connallie’s $500,000 station bail was extended and she and the others ordered to return to court on August 9.

The six co-accused were Thursday identified in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court as Chantel Connallie, Tasha-Gay Slater, Luis Mills, Christoph Madden, Rachelle Bryan, and Rania Bonner.

The six appeared in court after being served with summonses. Unlike Ann-Marie Connallie, they were never taken into police custody.

Forty-three-year-old Ann-Marie Connallie, of the NHT’s Contribution Refunds Department, and who resides in Portmore, St Catherine, was along with the other accused charged last week and slapped with a slew of charges including conspiracy to defraud and causing money to be paid out by means of false pretence.

The court was told Thursday that the files in the case was incomplete.

A total of 19 accounts were affected including those of Simpson Miller; former Prime Minister PJ Patterson; Audley Shaw, the former finance minister in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP); and former JLP Member of Parliament Michael Stern.

On June 7, Clifford Chambers, the superintendent in charge of the Fraud Squad, told the Jamaica Observer that a little over $200,000 was alleged taken from Patterson’s account. Shaw’s account, it is alleged, was raided $133,000. The prime minister’s account allegedly had $82,000 taken from it, while that of Stern allegedly had $67,000 taken.

Nineteen accounts were allegedly raided multiple times over a two-year period, starting in 2010, and lost just over one million dollars.

According to Chambers, the allegedly fraud was perpetrated when the system inside the Contribution Refunds Unit was manipulated to create fraudulent refunds which were allegedly collected by Ann-Marie’s co-accused.

The information, it is alleged, was manipulated to show that the victims had applied for their contribution refund but then the names were changed, allegedly to those of the four young accused, to facilitate the collection of the funds, said Chambers. The names, it is being alleged, were then changed back to those of the original account holders after the funds were picked up.

The young accused, who Chambers said are 23 years and under, have not been contributing to the NHT for the required seven years, which would make them eligible to apply for refunds.