An agent has appeared in court in a fraud case.

Andre Montaut, a former director of Barrington Property, appeared in Aylesbury Crown Court on Friday charged with two counts of fraud.

On February 13, Montaut entered a guilty plea to a charge that he committed fraud involving a tenancy agreement deposit  where he exposed another to a risk of loss.

The charge said he made “a false representation to staff at My Deposits Tenancy Deposit Protection Scheme, which was and which he knew was or might be untrue or misleading” that a bank statement “was an accurate representation of monies within that account, with a view to maintaining membership of the Scheme”.

The offence occurred between May 2012 and November 2012.

A second charge remains on file, where he is accused of committing fraud “to make a gain” for himself or another, and “abusing his position as director of Barrington Property”, failing to safeguard the financial interests of others, “namely the clients of Barrington Property who had lodged tenants’ deposits for safekeeping in accordance with the Housing Act 2004, by using those clients’ funds for business expenditure on behalf of Barrington Property, which is in breach of Section 4 of the Fraud Act 2006”.

The alleged offences in that charge were between October 2009 and November 2012.

The case was adjourned with Montaut given conditional bail, with the case set to return to Aylesbury Crown Court next month.