Ex-Hilton worker charged with stealing $90,000 in alcohol

A Diego Martin man was granted $50,000 bail with a surety by justice of the Peace Oliver Boodoo on Saturday after being charged with four counts of fraud and one count of larceny.

Romario Lamy, 28, of Williams Street, Four Roads, was charged with stealing $90,227 worth of alcohol and four counts of falsification of hotel electronic inventory records.

A former Hilton employee, he is expected to appear before a Port of Spain magistrate on June 1.

The Hilton Trinidad reported to police that between August and November last year, an employee sent eight e-mail orders to one of its suppliers for several cases of Remy Martin VSOP Cognac and Glenfiddich Special Reserve 12-year scotch whiskey.

The employee collected the alcohol at the supplier’s warehouse but did not send it to the hotel’s stock room. The employee used his access to the electronic inventory records of the hotel to manipulate purchase order records in an attempt to conceal his actions.

The scheme was discovered in November, when the finance department noted large amounts of alcohol being supplied to the hotel during a period of low occupancy owing to to the pandemic.

PC Dubois of the Fraud Squad began investigation and Lamy was arrested on April 29 and charged a day later.