Sagicor exec rejects suggestion of bribery in fraud case testimony
Published:Wednesday | July 16, 2025 | 12:12 AMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter
An executive at the Sagicor Group has denied a suggestion that she was aware of numerous attempts by internal security operatives to coerce one of the four ex-employees in the multimillion-dollar fraud case to alter a witness statement.
Kaydian Morris Myers, human resources relationship manager at Sagicor Group, also denied a suggestion that the former employee, Tishan Samuels, was promoted from a teller to the position of client care officer amid an internal investigation into the alleged $65-million fraud.
Samuels, along with Alysia Moulton White, former vice-president of Sagicor Life; her sister, Tricia Moulton, former manager for the Liguanea and Manor Park branches of Sagicor Bank; and Malika McLeod, a personal-banking officer, are on trial for allegedly orchestrating a “sophisticated” fraudulent scheme that siphoned off $65 million from the financial conglomerate.
Sagicor Life and Sagicor Bank are subsidiaries of the Sagicor Group.
The denials by Morris Myers came during cross-examination by Rita Allen Brown, the attorney representing Samuels.
The Sagicor human resource head testified that Samuels was suspended in November 2022 following an investigation led by the group’s internal security operation team. The investigation commenced in 2022, but she could not remember the month, the witness testified.
Morris Myers agreed, too, that Samuels’ suspension letter was crafted after she got information from the security operation team.
However, while acknowledging that she was aware that Samuels met with members of the group security operation team, Morris Myers testified that she was not made aware that Samuels had given them a statement.
Her testimony triggered a series of questions from Allen Brown.
“On November 2, 2022, a day after Samuels met with group security, she got an email from Shavelle Robinson confirming her appointment as client care officer?” she asked the Sagicor Group human resource boss.
“I’m not aware of that,” Morris Myers replied while acknowledging that Robinson was a talent acquisition and human resource services officer at the Sagicor Group.
DENIED HAVING THAT CONVERSATION
Morris Myers responded that she “never had such a conversation” when asked whether Samuels handed her a letter, during a meeting on November 3, 2022, indicating that she would “give a statement about what she knows and not one to fit Sagicor Bank’s narrative”.
“You are not confirming the promotion given to Tishan Samuels a day before she was suspended by you because you are aware the promotion was to bribe her to change her statement of October 12, 2022?” Allen Brown questioned.
“I totally disagree,” the witness responded.
“I’m putting it to you that the change that was requested to be made [to the statement] was purely Sagicor Bank’s narrative to include information outside Miss Samuels’ knowledge that would incriminate Tricia Moulton,” the attorney pressed.
“I’m not aware of that,” Morris Myers replied.
The four former employees are all charged on a 22-count indictment.
They face charges under the Larceny Act for obtaining money by false pretences and credit by fraud under the Proceeds of Crime Act for engaging in and acquiring criminal property and under common law for conspiracy to defraud.
The case is being prosecuted by attorneys Terrence Williams and Ann-Marie Feurtado-Richards on a fiat from the director of public prosecutions.
McLeod is being represented by attorney Peter Champagnie, King’s Counsel. Moulton is represented by Kemar Robinson, and Moulton White is represented by Deborah Martin.
The trial continues today.