Mavado Wants To Testify Via Video Link In Fraud Case Against Jennifer Messado

Former attorney-at-law Jennifer Messado will stand trial on September 12 on allegations that she defrauded Dancehall entertainer Mavado, whose real name is David Brooks, of more than $30 million.

The date was set on Thursday afternoon when the case was mentioned before the St. Andrew Parish Court.

The Not Perfect deejay wants to give his testimony via video link from the US in the September trial. Mavado’s attorney-at-law, Oswest Senior Smith, made an application to this effect, and a court will decide on May 5, if the entertainer will be granted permission to do so.

“Mr Brooks is quite relieved that the matter is now set for trial, after such a long time. He is looking forward to the opportunity to give his evidence about how he has been trying to recover his more than $30 million for the last several years,” Smith told DancehallMag.

“He is pleased that the Court may make an Order permitting his testimony from the USA where he lives and works.”

Mrs. Messado, who has been disbarred, is accused of defrauding the entertainer in a real estate deal It is alleged that in April 2018, Mavado was introduced to a property at Grosvenor Terrace, Kingston 8 and started making arrangements to purchase the property through his attorney, Tamika Harris.

Messado reportedly professed to have been given permission to oversee the sale as the owner was incarcerated overseas.

Mavado later reportedly paid Messado $30.7 million for the property and signed a sale agreement and a document giving him possession.

However,  it was later discovered that the property was not for sale and that the owner was not incarcerated.

The owner of the property further indicated that he did not know Messado and never gave her permission to sell his property.

Following the alleged fraud, Mavado was reportedly reimbursed $7 million.

However, after several attempts to recover his money failed he reported the matter to the police and Messado was arrested and charged with obtaining money by false pretense.

OTHER FRAUD CASES

Messado is already battling other cases of alleged fraud.

A few years ago, Messado was charged with 12 counts of forgery and four counts of obtaining money by means of false pretence in a separate matter.

It is alleged that Messado borrowed $16 million from the complainant in 2018.

The complainant filed a civil suit in the Supreme Court when she failed to repay the loan. The judge ruled that his client repay $10.7 million when the case was mentioned in court in 2021. Her lawyer contended that the complainant had already received two payments.