PENTICTON — A former executive director of the Downtown Victoria Business Association faces a criminal trial on fraud charges.
Following a two-day preliminary inquiry last week, Kerri Milton, was committed to trial at B.C. Supreme Court.
Milton is accused of fraud over $5,000 and falsifying documents in 2014 during her time as executive director of Downtown Penticton Association.
Preliminary inquiries, such as the one into claims against Milton, are held in provincial court to determine if there is enough evidence to go to trial.
Publication bans apply to evidence heard at preliminary inquiries, ostensibly to avoid tainting the jury pool, although Milton has elected to be tried by judge alone.
She is due back in court on Sept. 13 for a trial date.
Milton, who lives in Victoria, left the Downtown Penticton Association in July 2016 to become executive director of the Downtown Victoria Business Association, which later parted ways with her.
In May 2017, Milton’s Downtown Penticton Association successor announced the group had discovered financial irregularities and ordered a forensic audit, the results of which had already been turned over to the RCMP.
Charges against Milton were filed in June last year.
