{"id":167070,"date":"2023-01-07T11:57:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T15:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=167070"},"modified":"2023-01-07T11:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T15:57:16","slug":"case-against-fraud-accused-dpp-adjourned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/case-against-fraud-accused-dpp-adjourned\/","title":{"rendered":"Case against fraud accused DPP adjourned"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Embattled Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Anthony Armstrong will have to wait three more weeks to take another shot at having his fraud case dismissed in a Jamaican court.<\/p>

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Armstrong\u2019s lawyer was to make a second attempt to have the case thrown out in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Thursday but the hearing was adjourned to January 26.<\/p>\n

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Jamaican-born Armstrong was arrested in November and slapped with fraud charges stemming from the apparent sale of three properties in St Andrew, Jamaica, between 1999 and 2002 without the consent of the then imprisoned owner.<\/p>

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He is charged alongside the complainant\u2019s cousin, Shelly Peart-Campbell.<\/p>

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According to reports, Armstrong was assisting with the sale of properties on behalf of the complainant, Michael Adams, who was his client at the time. However, Adams was later incarcerated in the United States.<\/p>\n

Armstrong\u2019s attorney Hugh Wildman maintains that when the three properties were sold, the proceeds were paid to Adams\u2019 father who was authorised to act as the agent while Adams was in jail.<\/p>

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Wildman also submitted that it was Peart-Campbell who sold all three apartments.<\/p>\n

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