A woman was yesterday charged with defrauding two businessmen of €195,000 by allegedly offering them a credit facility from a Chinese bank.

Tajik-born Eva Aydelman, who has a Maltese passport,was arraigned under arrest and pleaded not guilty.

The prosecution said the woman posed as an intermediary of the bank. The men were seeking funds to convert two Valletta properties into a boutique hotel and went to Hong Kong to open accounts for a credit facility of €17.5 million.

But they realised no request for a facility had ever been filed, theprosecution alleged, saying the woman had fabricated several transactions.

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