Guyanese woman slapped with 14 fraud charges. Carol Smith-Joseph, a political activist in Guyana, appeared in court on allegations of fraud and was given bail in the amount of GY$140,000. The Special Organized Crime Unit charged Smith-Joseph, of West Coast Berbice, on Wednesday with 14 indictable counts of Fraudulent Appropriation of Body Corporate Property Committed on the Mahaica Abary Rice Development Scheme (MARDS).