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FBI forensic accountant to testify
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Posted on Sep 09 2011
By Ferdie de la Torre
Reporter
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The U.S. government is planning to introduce the expert testimony of the FBI’s forensic accountant during the trial of a couple who were indicted for their role in an alleged conspiracy to defraud a Philippine bank of approximately $109,855.
Assistant U.S. attorney Beverly R. McCallum filed the U.S. government’s notice in the U.S. District Court for the NMI on Wednesday, stating the prosecution’s intent to introduce the expert testimony of Andriana Schreff at the trial of Ana Maria V. Villegas and Haydn L. Villegas.
McCallum said that Schreff is expected to provide testimony relating to financial records from the years 2004 through 2005, including business records of Haydn and Ana Villegas; Philippine Express Remittance; Philippine National Bank; and the latter’s subsidiary, PNB Corp., doing business in the CNMI as PNB Foreign Exchange.
She said that Schreff is also expected to opine that the alleged co-conspirators intentionally devised and executed financial transactions to defraud Philippine National Bank.
According to the indictments, the scheme began in November 2004 when the Villegas couple, then co-owners of Philippine Express Remittance, started passing checks drawn on insufficient funds at PNB Express, at that time a subsidiary of Philippine National Bank.
