Sun Investments manager pleads guilty to banking breaches

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Sun Investments manager pleads guilty to banking breaches

WESTERN BUREAU: Clifford Williams, one of three executives of the Montego Bay-based Sun Investments Limited accused of breaches of the Bank of Jamaica Act, pleaded guilty in the St James Parish Court yesterday and is to be sentenced on Monday, May...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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