• On or about the 26 January 2010 in Gibraltar together with Benjamin/Solomon Marrache, dishonestly with a view to gain for themselves or another with intent to cause loss to another falsified a document required for an accounting purpose by making or concurring in the making of the document, namely a letter to the director of Portino Comercio Internacional SA signed by Solomon Marrache who to their knowledge was or might be misleading or deceptive in a material particular in that it purported to show that as from that day they held the sum of 1,835,266.74 Euros on behalf of said company.
• On or about the 26 January 2010 in Gibraltar together with Benjamin/Solomon Marrache, dishonestly with a view to gain for themselves or another with intent to cause loss to another falsified a document required for an accounting purpose by making or concurring in the making of the document, namely a document signed by Benjamin Marrache purporting to give authority to National Westminster Gibraltar to transfer the sum of 1,835,266.74 Euros from account number 39064483 held at National Westminster Gibraltar to account number 49777531 held at Bank of Ireland which to their knowledge was or might be misleading, false or deceptive in a material particular in that account number 39064483 was only a credit in the sum of 8.82 Euros and had no credit facility. million Euros features at the centre of charges against Benjamin and Solomon Marrache. The two brothers were in the Magistrates Court yesterday morning to hear the charges and conditions for bail. In late afternoon, they returned to court.On the two occasions, the two men arrived in a police van and alighted in the company of police officers at the side entrance to the Central Police Station, which is being used as a temporary courthouse.Benjamin Marrache is the senior partner and Solomon Marrache the finance director at Marrache & Co.One of the charges refers to the falsifying of a document required for an accounting purpose, being a letter to a Spanish company signed by Solomon Marrache "who to their knowledge was or might be misleading or deceptive" showing that from that day they held the sum of 1,835,266.74 Euros on behalf of the said company.Another charge refers to a document, also allegedly falsified, and signed by Benjamin Marrache purporting to give authority to National Westminster Gibraltar to transfer the sum of 1,835,266.74 Euros from an account at National Westminster Gibraltar to another account held at Bank of Ireland "which to their knowledge was or might be misleading, false or deceptive" in that the account at National Westminster Gibraltar was only a credit in the sum of 8.82 Euros.The conditions for bail included a surety of £150,000 for each of the charges in their own recognisance.
The two brothers have been freed on bail to reappear in court on 21 April.
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