KINGSTON, Jamaica — Three more persons were arrested and charged in connection to a massive $160 million fraud at Facey Commodity Limited.

The individuals were arrested and charged on Monday and will join the others in court on May 22. They are:

Carlington Reid, sales assistant, St Patrick Waskit, truck driver and Maynard Anderson, sales assistant.

Last week, police arrested 17 persons in connection to the fraud.

Monday’s charges bring to 21 the number of persons implicated in the matter since it was first made public on April 13. Of that number, 19 have been charged while two are awaiting charges.

It is reported that on May 16, 2022, the management of Facey parent company Seprod called in the police to probe what was believed to be fraudulent activities being carried out by employees in the van sales department at the company.

According to Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey, “investigations uncovered that two IT employees had manipulated the company’s computer system to facilitate 24 other employees, including route sale drivers and assistants who participated in the fraud by collecting goods from Seprod warehouses and subsequently sold the goods and kept the proceeds.”

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Bailey further revealed that between April 12 and April 13, 2023, members of CTOC conducted special operations across Clarendon, St Catherine and the Corporate Area where the 17 suspects were arrested.