ST CATHERINE, Jamaica – Detectives attached to the Fraud Squad unit of the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch charged a man for breaches of the Cybercrimes Act yesterday.

He is 33-year-old Gavin Champagnie, an accountant of Jackson Way, Meadowvale in Portmore, St Catherine.

Reports are that on February 29, Champagnie, who worked as a financial controller at a finance company, purported to be the chief executive officer (CEO) of the company and allegedly sent an email to a junior accountant with instructions to wire US$42,000 to a bank account in the United States of America.

The junior accountant contacted the CEO for additional information when it was reportedly borne out that the email did not originate from him.

A report was made to the Fraud Squad and Champagnie was subsequently arrested and charged.

According to a news release from the police, when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court today, he was granted bail in the sum of J$300,000.

He is scheduled to reappear on Wednesday, March 16.