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A 45 year old Australian man went to court today accused of running a con game on his business partner. His name is Cesar Fermine Daniele, a chef working on Placencia and he allegedly defrauded his business partner Chen Yin Hsieh of over ten thousand Belize dollars. Here’s how it worked: Hsieh owns the Red Hut Inn which is in Bella Vista and in early June, Daniele was a guest there. She says he told her that he sells online vacation packages and that he could get clients for her.

She gave him her bank account number so those new clients could deposit money in there. And sure enough, between June 20 and July 13th, US5,860 was allegedly deposited in the account. But it turns out the transactions were fraudulent – the clients never got the packages they had paid for and the clients demanded a refund. The Atlantic Bank complied and deducted the money form her account.

So she only lost what was fraudulently put in, right? Well, not quite. Hsieh says that for each transaction, she gave Daneile a Belize dollar cheque equivalent to the amount deposited. And so she’s out 10 grand and today in court number three he was charged with four counts of obtaining property by deception.

He pleaded not guilty but Magistrate Tracy Sosa denied him bail and remanded him until September 7th because his immigration status in Belize could not be confirmed.