TWO people charged with separate counts of fraudulent falsification of accounts and another charged with money laundering amounting to $699,000 were denied bail by Magistrate Jioji Boseiwaqa at the Suva Magistrates Court yesterday.
The first accused, Rajat Maharaj, 31, is charged with 56 counts of money laundering.
The second accused, Biren Lal, 32, is charged with 50 counts of fraudulent falsification of accounts while the third accused Jessie McGoon is charged with seven counts of fraudulent falsification of accounts.
The incident happened between 2014 and 2015.
The court heard that Mr Lal and Mrs McGoon were working as financial assistants for Goodman Fielder International (Fiji) PTE Ltd when the
incident happened.
However, Mr Maharaj, who was the first accused, had his own company where the money was injected.
DPP lawyer Mehzabeen Khan said none of the monies were recovered and that prosecution had a strong case according to evidence gathered.
She said they strongly opposed bail because the accused were likely to interfere with employees at Goodman Fielder International (Fiji) PTE Ltd.
Ms Khan said the offences were serious in nature with the involvement of such substantial amount.
The case would be called again today
