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Two peo­ple have now been charged in con­nec­tion with a pay­roll fraud and mon­ey laun­der­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion at the Port of Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice said a 43-year-old self-em­ployed man from Up­per San­ta Cruz was charged on Sun­day night with mon­ey laun­der­ing un­der the Pro­ceeds of Crime Act. He is the com­mon-law hus­band of a salary clerk at the Cor­po­ra­tion who was charged last week.

The clerk was ar­rest­ed on Sep­tem­ber 4 at the Cor­po­ra­tion’s of­fice on Knox and Fred­er­ick Streets by of­fi­cers of the Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Branch. She has since been charged with ob­tain­ing mon­ey by false pre­tence to­talling $29,174.50, and with mon­ey laun­der­ing for re­ceiv­ing $14,210.50 be­lieved to be crim­i­nal prop­er­ty.