Agnieszka Zajac, aged 46, from Glenkeen, Randalstown, appeared via video link before Craigavon Magistrates Court for the Preliminary Enquiry as she is no longer living in Northern Ireland. Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to NorthernIrelandWorld, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Zajac faces a charge of fraud by abuse of position, 11 counts of fraud by false representation, two counts of false accounting and a charge of making or supplying articles for use in fraud involving sums of 19,458.
34 Polish Zloty. These charges date from May 5, 2021 and December 8, 2021. Her co-accused, Justyna Jakubik, aged 40, from Weirside, Randalstown, attended court to face a single charge of fraud by false representation.
She is accused of presenting two invoices for payment between December 8 and 15, 2021 claiming that she had provided teaching services and paid for these sessions from funding provided by the Polish Saturday School Ballymena and the Polish Saturday School Coleraine. Both women, when asked via a Polish interpreter, said they didn’t object to the holding of a Preliminary Enquiry and a prosecutor told the court she believed there was a prima facie case to answer. There were no contrary submissions from either of the defendants’ counsel.
Advertisement Advertisement District Judge Michael Ranaghan said there is a prima facie case. Both women were sent for trial to Craigavon Crown Court with arraignment on Octo.