Immigration consultant loses malicious prosecution lawsuit

An im­mi­gra­tion con­sul­tant from Aranguez who was ac­quit­ted of two charges of al­leged­ly steal­ing $77,000 from a client seek­ing help with work per­mits has lost her ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion law­suit.

In a judg­ment de­liv­ered yes­ter­day, High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad dis­missed Pre­mab­hak­ti Sama­roo’s law­suit against the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al.

Jus­tice Seep­er­sad found sev­er­al de­fi­cien­cies in the po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion and ruled that of­fi­cers lacked rea­son­able and prob­a­ble cause to charge Sama­roo with one of the of­fences. How­ev­er, he found that she had not met the high thresh­old re­quired to prove ma­li­cious pros­e­cu­tion.