Education ministry employee charged for alleged fraudulent payments to himself
Published:Tuesday | June 3, 2025 | 1:27 PM
An employee at the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information is to return to court in September for allegedly defrauding the Government almost $3 million, the police Fraud Squad has confirmed.
Khadeem Wilson, 31, an accounting technician, who resides in Waterford, St Catherine, has been charged with larceny as a servant and breaches of the Proceeds of Crime Act.
It’s alleged that between March 2023 and January last year he uploaded payments totalling $2.8 million to his account, which he was not entitled to.
The payments came from the system used by the ministry to pay watchmen and went into the same account to which Wilson’s salary is deposited, investigators said.
Wilson was charged on April 11 this year after he was interviewed by detectives in the presence of his attorney.
He made his first appearance in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last Friday.
- Livern Barrett
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