AGD employee sentenced to 3 years in dead claim scam
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Accounting technician at the Accountant General’s Department (AGD) Julio Parkinson, 35, was today sentenced to three years in prison when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court.
Parkinson was sentenced to three years each on 44 counts of obtaining money by false pretence by Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey, but the sentences are to run concurrent. He had previously pleaded guilty on Friday, February 13.
The AGD employee and his five co-accused reportedly defrauded the Government agency of $21.7 million in a dead claims scam.
He is to reappear in court on April 22 for mention in relation to charges of conspiracy to defraud, forgery and uttering forged documents, along with his AGD supervisor, Roxanne Crossdale, Kemar Lewis, Rameish Watson, Anthony Monroe, and Troy Blythe.
Tanesha Mundle
