The National Housing Trust employee accused of being behind a $10 million dollar racket at the agency has now been charged.

Charged with conspiracy and obtaining money by fraud is 26-year-old Stacy-Ann Garvey.

She was charged on the weekend by detectives from the Fraud Squad, and the matter listed to be brought up in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.

ID parades

She was not present, however, and investigators subsequently explained that she was scheduled to face a number of identification parades last week, which did not take place. As a result, Senior Resident Magistrate Glen Brown ordered that she be taken to court on November 3.

Garvey, who was accused of fleecing millions of dollars from desperate house seekers, was nabbed last week during a police operation in Fletcher's Land in Kingston. Further reports are that more than $700,000 was seized during the operation.

It is reported that persons paid large sums of money to Garvey who promised to place them atop the list of persons to get houses from the NHT.

She allegedly urged them to pay for her aid as the houses were in high demand.

Investigators say in one of the reported cases, a man claimed to have paid $2 million as a down payment on a number of houses.

She was suspended in March by officials at the NHT after suspicious persons persons alerted the agency when the promises of the employee were not forthcoming.

The NHT officials then alerted the Fraud Squad, which could not locate Garvey for some time.