A 23-year-old unemployed man from Bent Street, Wortmanville was charged and granted bail in the sum of $2.4 Million on 25 counts of simple larceny and 23 counts of Conspiracy to commit computer related fraud. The charges are in relation to the theft of over $36.4 million from the joint account of a couple.

The accused, Shemaiah Ryan aka “Banker” pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.

According to a Police report, Ryan conspired with persons to make a National Identification Card in the name of Carl Peterken using all of the man’s information and presented himself to a city bank as the Carl Peterken who has an account at the bank.

The victim who has a joint account with his wife at the bank, was never the holder of an ATM card. The accused was reportedly in possession of that information, and while posing as the victim with an ID card in the man’s name, he requested an ATM card from the bank in the man’s name and it was granted.

The Police report said the accused later contacted a mother and daughter who were known to him and requested that they allow him to transfer money to their accounts so that they could withdraw it on his behalf, as he claimed he was on a Government contract and could not find time to visit the bank to withdraw money to pay his workers.

The two women agreed and between the 2nd September 2022 and the 19th September 2022, he transferred a total of $17, 997,000 (seventeen million, nine hundred and ninety seven thousand dollars) from the account of the Peterkens into the account of one of the women via internet banking.

He later transferred an additional $13,618,000 (thirteen million, six hundred and eighteen thousand dollars) from the joint account to the other woman’s account. He reportedly collected the money from the two women.

The Police also reported that on 27 occasions, the man used the ATM card in the name of Carl Peterken to withdraw over $4.8 million from the joint account of the Peterkens at different ATMs. All of this took place in 2022.

He was arrested recently after a wanted bulletin was issued for his arrest. The bulletin followed an investigation that was conducted and which video recordings being reviewed of the ATM facilities. In those recordings, the accused was captured on camera withdrawing the money using the ATM card that he was able to obtain with an ID card that he got made in the name of one of the account holders.

The accused is expected back in Court in May.

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