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A 32-year-old man who denied using fraudulent insurance cheques to defraud three businesses will appear before a magistrate next year to determine whether he will be granted bail before his trial.
Another man accused of similar offences was yesterday granted $3,500 bail before his hearing.
In the first incident, Brent McPhee appeared before Magistrate Samuel McKinney after he was accused of using fake JS Johnson cheques to defraud three hardware stores of over $16,000 worth of supplies between November and December.
Yesterday, he was charged with three counts of conspiracy to commit fraud, five counts of possession of a forged document, five counts of uttering a forged document and five counts of fraud by false pretences.