Customs and Immigration officials were on the lookout for businesswoman, Vicky Boodram, who escaped from the women’s section of the Golden Grove Prison in Trinidad while awaiting trial on more than 100 fraud charges.
A statement released by the Ministry of National Security Tuesday advised that Boodram is believed to be making efforts to leave the country and as such all points of entry including ports and the airports are being closely monitored by law enforcement to prevent her escape.
Boodram is before several courts charged with defrauding people allegedly by taking money for cruises which never materialised.
“Officers are instructed that she is not to be allowed to depart. Furthermore, if she is sighted at any port, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service is to be contacted immediately,” according to an alert issued by the Chief Immigration Officer on Tuesday.
Boodram is facing 109 fraud charges linked to failed cruise ship packages offered by the company, Travel and Ship Ahoy Cruise Limited. She is a director of the company.
Her estranged husband, Ravi Arjoonsingh, was also charged with collecting millions of dollars from 109 people through fraudulent means and transferring the money to himself and the company in 2010. In 2016, more fraud charges were laid against Boodram, including obtaining property in the sum of TT$216,000 by fraud.
In addition to the fraud charges, Boodram had appeared at the San Fernando court in south Trinidad on two charges of money laundering after she allegedly purchased a TT$629,000 E-Class Mercedes-Benz and a two million dollar house using forged documents.
HOW SHE DID IT
DETAILS are beginning to emerge about how fraud accused businesswoman Vicky Boodram allegedly “escaped” prison custody on Thursday.
Her disappearance has called into question the protocols of both the police and prison service.
The Express is being told that shortly before 6p.m Thursday, Court and Process police officers visited the women’s section of the Golden Grove Prison and requested that Boodram accompany them to “night court”.
Prison authorities allowed her to be signed out and taken away. She never came back.
There is no such thing as a “night court” in Trinidad or Tobago.
The officers involved in the prison visit are now the subjects of a police investigation.
Meanwhile, there is an alert out to all Customs and Immigration officers to be on the lookout in the event Boodram attempts to leave Trinidad and Tobago.
Boodram has 109 fraud charges pending in the San Fernando court. These are linked to failed cruise ship packages.
Her estranged husband, Ravi Arjoonsingh, with whom she was a director of Travel and Ship Ahoy Cruise Ltd, was also charged with taking millions of dollars from 109 people through fraudulent means and transferring the money to himself and the company in 2010.
Boodram also faces three charges of a similar nature in Siparia.
In 2016, more fraud charges were laid against Boodram, including obtaining property in the sum of $216,000 by fraud. These four charges, laid by PC Bernard, were transferred to San Fernando after she appeared in Port of Spain on 40 new fraud charges.
Before these charges were laid, Boodram had appeared at the San Fernando court on two cases of money laundering after she allegedly purchased a $629,000 E-Class Mercedes-Benz and a $2 million house in Palmiste using forged documents.
In an alert issued by the Chief Immigration Officer on Tuesday, it was advised by Boodram had escaped and that “she may attempt to depart the jurisdiction. Officers are instructed that she is not to be allowed to depart. Furthermore, if she is sighted at any port, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service is to be contacted immediately”.
why trinis always act and behave like theese things doesn’t happen in trinidad? like their own people don’t be doing those things, especially when jamaicans and others are under the microscope for such, I can bet you they’re going to say its the jamaicans in trinidad are influencing them, I’ve been hearing for a long time that their court judges and politicians are in the pockets of guyanese, venezuelan, columbian and bolivian drug cartels, yet on the surface they carry on like their doo-doo can make patty, SMH.