A Laven­tille man is due to ap­pear in court af­ter be­ing charged with mon­ey laun­der­ing fol­low­ing a cy­ber-en­abled fraud in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, the TTPS said on Fri­day, Au­gust 29, Ma­lik Wyne of Bev­er­ly Hills, Laven­tille, was for­mal­ly charged by Woman Po­lice Con­sta­ble Williams of the Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Branch (FIB) un­der the Pro­ceeds of Crime Act.

The case stemmed from a re­port made on Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 13, when a vic­tim dis­cov­ered $45,000 had been un­law­ful­ly trans­ferred from her bank ac­count af­ter she clicked a fraud­u­lent link sent via text mes­sage.