OLYMPIC WAY, ST. Andrew resident Elaire Anderson, charged with conspiracy to defraud, forgery of a will and uttering a forged document after producing a allegedly fraudulent will is to return to court on August 2.
The case was mentioned last Tuesday in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.
It is alleged that in March 2004, two weeks after Michael Jacques was fatally shot in the United States, Anderson appeared with a will stating that she and her children, and not his wife and her two children, were bequeathed $7 million, five Kingston apartments, half of the matrimonial home, jewellery, a Lexus, a Toyota Tundra and a Toyota Forerunner.
Strange
Jacques' wife reportedly found this strange as she also had a will, which made no mention of Anderson. She subsequently reported the matter to the Fraud Squad. The investigators then submitted a file to the Question Document Examiner, whose team of experts examined Jacques? signature. After careful comparisons with other documents supposedly bearing his signature, which the man?s wife brought, they found the signature on Anderson?s document to be bogus.
It is also alleged that on June 3, 2005, the accused was taken into custody, interrogated in the presence of her attorney and later slapped with the three charges. She was offered station bail of $150,000 with surety.
Her bail was extended when she appeared before Resident Magistrate Martin Gayle.
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