A would-be Chinese immigrant businesswoman is suing a troubled BC Cancer Agency spinoff company after…
‘You’ll get a dead body’: Father was ‘distraught’ over international student’s fake kidnapping
For three days last fall, Mike Zhang didn’t know if his daughter, Juanwen, was dead or alive. At home in China’s Xinjiang province, the businessman could not reach the 20-year-old student who was studying economics at the University of Toronto. Her phone...
Canadian man convicted of defrauding the U.S military faces sentencing
Attorneys for a Canadian man convicted of defrauding the U.S. military after being contracted to supply armoured vehicles for use in Iraq are asking a federal judge for leniency. Defence attorneys say 72-year-old William Whyte, who faces sentencing Tuesday in federal...
Unpublished data shows India’s fraud problems extend far beyond PNB and initial billion dollar fraud
Investors may have been shocked when one of India’s biggest banks disclosed a $1.77 billion fraud by a billionaire jeweler, but the central bank has recorded data that shows the problem runs far deeper and wider. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data, which a Reuters...
CRA conducts simultaneous Panama Papers raids in the GTA, Calgary and Vancouver
Nearly two years after the Panama Papers leak was made public, Canadian tax officials have carried out their first major raids, executing three search warrants across the country. The simultaneous raids Wednesday morning in West Vancouver, Calgary and the GTA were all...
Canadian one of 36 indicted by US in international cyber fraud ring
A Canadian is among 36 people indicted by the U.S. Justice Department for their alleged roles in what has been called the Infraud Organization, an Internet-based cybercriminal enterprise broken up by international police who say it engaged in the large-scale...