KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug 27 2016 – A Jamaican music producer is due to appear in a United States court on Monday after he was named on a list of nationals indicted by US prosecutors in North Dakota for lottery scamming.
Andrew Myrie Friday pleaded guilty to customs breaches when he appeared before the St. Andrew Parish Court on a charge of aiding in the making of a false declaration to Jamaica Customs in 2013.
Myrie, who was fined J$250,000 (One Jamaica dollar =US$0.008 cents) and is expected to be flown out of the country this weekend to appear in a US Court on Monday.
The court heard that in November 2013, Customs personnel arrested Deonville O’Hara at the Sangster International Airport after he was found with US$105,000. O’Hara said that the money was the proceeds of a music contract he had with Myrie.
Myrie later submitted a statement to Customs, claiming the money was indeed the proceeds of a music contract. However, investigations by the police and US law enforcement authorities revealed that the money was the proceeds from lottery scamming in the US.
O’Hara, who was released without charge in November 2013, was later nabbed when he tried to re-enter the United States.
Myrie has since been charged with wire fraud among other things.
The US government recently released the names of a group of Jamaicans wanted for trial in North Dakota for lottery scamming. The men are accused of fleecing more than five million US dollars from US citizens.
