A loans officer, who is accused of soliciting $650,000 from a housing developer to bypass loan requirements for a $150-million loan, is scheduled to return to the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on October 23.

The 49-year-old accused, Dalton Myrie, of Constant Spring in St Andrew, who was employed to the Jamaica Mortgage Bank, is charged with breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act, soliciting money, and accepting money.

According to the police, sometime in 2014 the complainant went to the bank and applied for a loan. It is reported that the accused allegedly solicited $500,000 from the complainant to circumvent the loans requirement.

The loan was subsequently approved, and it is reported that the accused corruptly accepted varying sums of money from the complainant, totalling $600,000, on each occasion that money was disbursed from the bank to the complainant.

It is also alleged that the accused man corruptly solicited an additional $50,000 and the complainant subsequently reported the matter to the police. A sting operation was set up in March of this year, and the accused was allegedly held collecting the $50,000.

When the matter was mentioned Tuesday before Resident Magistrate Grace Henry-McKenzie, the court was informed that the Cybercrimes Forensic Unit report was still outstanding and a new mention date

was set.

Myrie’s bail was then extended.