Peniston, 52, will hear the evidence against him on eight charges at a long-form preliminary inquiry at Magistrates Court, starting on March 11.

The ex-Senator, who appeared before Senior Magistrate Will Francis yesterday, faces charges of perjury, forgery and contempt of court and creditors.

One charge against him claims he concealed $14,016.82 from a surrendered insurance company policy.

Peniston, of Rosemount Avenue, Pembroke, said nothing during a brief hearing yesterday.

But a deal between his solicitor, Juan Wolffe, and crown counsel Leighton Rochester will allow him to travel outside Bermuda while he is on bail.

Mr. Francis increased Peniston's bail from $1,000 to $2,500 but allowed his passport to be returned.

The defendant can now apply for travel documents as long as he keeps Police informed of his movements.

The charges against Peniston relate back to alleged offences in 1994.

$40,000 WILL BE FORFEITED CTS $40,000 will be forfeited A visitor from New York, caught trying to take more than $40,000 out of the island, was this week ordered to forfeit the money.

Andrea Dottin, a 26-year-old US Army Reserve, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court to trying to export dollars which she had not brought to the Island with her.

Crown counsel Larry Mussenden told the court Dottin was stopped at the US Immigration at Bermuda International Airport on December 8 after $43,500 was found under a false bottom in her duffel bag.

Dottin told the US officials that she did not know where the money came from.

She was then arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking and taken to Hamilton Police Station, Mr. Mussenden added.

Dottin told Police her boyfriend, who had arranged the trip and was to have arrived on another flight, never showed up.

During a telephone conversation Dottin's boyfriend told her that he had not come because of a domestic problem. He said a friend of his would meet her that night for dinner in a restaurant, Mr. Mussenden said. Dottin went to the restaurant where she met a man who introduced himself only as John. He told her he had two duffel bags belonging to her boyfriend which he wanted Dottin to take.

The duffel bags appeared to be empty and Dottin packed some of her belongings in them. One of the bags contained the money.

Dottin told the officers she felt that she had been tricked by the two men.

A search for John revealed that a man fitting his description, although with a different name, had left the Island on December 8.

Duty counsel Kim Wilson pointed out that Dottin was a mother of a three year old and she had been naive.

Ms Wilson said the two men had been crafty and that Dottin was a "mere naive token in the plan''.

Magistrate Edward King said he could find no evidence to prove that the money was connected to anything illegal and ordered that the money be forfeited to the Crown.

He also gave Dottin a conditional discharge for 12 months.

JAIL FOR STEALING PHONE CTS Jail for stealing phone A Devonshire man this week began serving a six-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to stealing and fraudulently using a cellular telephone.

Keto Masters, 20, of Christopher Close, admitted to stealing the AT&T phone from John Stuart and using it to make 12 local calls.

Police prosecutor Sgt. Donald Grant told Magistrates' Court that during the month of March Masters and another man were employed as landscapers at the residence of John Stuart on Agar's Hill in Pembroke.

Mr. Stuart told Police that sometime in March he locked the $425 phone in the glove compartment of his car, but on March 28 noticed it was missing.

He called Bermuda Telephone Company three days later and was told that 12 local calls, totalling $7.50, had been made on his phone.

Masters was eventually arrested on July 24 and admitted to the offence.

However, he told Police that he found the phone on the porch and had only made one call.

He said he then took the phone to his girlfriend's cousin's house where he left it and someone else picked it up.

Masters told Magistrate Edward King that he only knew the first name of the man he suspected made the other calls and he was trying to track him down.

"I had no intention to steal the phone,'' he added. "I am sorry. Is there anyway that I could pay back the money for the phone and the calls? I am starting a job next week.'' But Mr. King replied: "I am sure the boss won't miss you. I don't see any reason why I shouldn't send you to jail for this. Money does not always make up for things, neither does saying, `I am sorry'.

"The public must be able to feel safe against people like you. If I leave something in my garbage can, it is still mine until the trash truck comes and even then the garbage men can't take it or they will be stealing because that item belongs to whoever runs the dump.'' Mr. King sentenced Masters to six months in prison for stealing the phone and one month for making the calls. The terms are to run concurrently.

COURT APPOINTMENT -- Llewellyn Peniston, former Government Senator, arrives at Magistrates' Court to face a series of fraud-related charges yesterday.