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Af­ter a 52-year-old Cunu­pia woman, who plead­ed guilty to mon­ey laun­der­ing, was sen­tenced to four years, six months, and 24 days in prison on Feb­ru­ary 19, a High Court judge has or­dered that the mon­ey be con­fis­cat­ed un­der the Pro­ceeds of Crime Act (POCA).

Nir­mala Tam­bie was ar­rest­ed in De­cem­ber 2024 af­ter $618,283 and US$18,796 were found at her Jack­man Trace, Es­mer­al­da Road home on March 2, 2023.

She was de­ter­mined to have pos­sessed the mon­ey, know­ing or hav­ing rea­son­able grounds to sus­pect it was crim­i­nal prop­er­ty, con­sti­tut­ing pro­ceeds from lar­ce­ny by ser­vant and em­bez­zle­ment from Gable X So­lu­tions Ltd be­tween Jan­u­ary and Sep­tem­ber 2022.