BY ROMINAH FAKA
The trial of a woman accused of deceiving two women and obtaining over $20,000 from them is set to begin at the Magistrate’s Court next Monday.
Loana Sisifiu is charged with 15 counts of simple larceny and has pleaded not guilty.
The trial was supposed to commence this week but the presiding principal magistrate was busy with other matters.
The prosecution plans to call four witnesses including the two complainants.
The matter has been adjourned to June 23 for trial.
Sisifiu was charged in relation to allegations between January and April of this year in Honiara, where she lied to two different women and obtained over $20,000 from them.
Prosecution further alleged that the accused obtained the money from the two women whom she collected in various amounts on different dates for airfares to travel to Australia, Visa and for train fares in Australia.
The allegation states that, one of the victims also claim that the accused gave her a fake plane ticket as well.
The two alleged victims lodged their complaints to the police after the accused promised to help them obtain their air fares and Visa which did not happen after they gave her their money.
John Wesley Zoze of ODPP appears for the Crown and Lazarus Waroka of PSO act for the Sisifiu.
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