by L Poole | Mar 9, 2023 | Breaking Court Decisions, Breaking News, Fraud Prosecution, From Investigation Counsel PC, Judgements
Staff Reporter, Canadian Fraud News Inc. On January 20, 2023, the Alberta Court of Appeal upheld a 10 month jail sentence imposed by Justice Creagh in Edmonton against Zimbabwe immigrant Urthurton Phiri. The 10 month jail sentence resulted from a $15,00 fraud related...
by L Poole | Dec 7, 2021 | Breaking News, Featured, Judgements
Ottawa-area couple convicted on quasi-criminal charges brought by the OSC A convicted fraudster, Marc Brunet, has been sentenced to jail time and ordered to pay restitution by an Ontario judge. The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced that Brunet, who was...
by staff | Jan 20, 2021 | Financial Fraud, Judgements
Debra Penttila, an office manager who pleaded guilty of defrauding her employer of $362,740.46 between 2004 and 2011, and was sentenced to restitution and two years imprisonment, was denied her appeal Feb. 21, 2020. The Fraud Debra...
by CFN Staff | Jan 7, 2021 | Breaking Court Decisions, Featured, Judgements
Jan. 7, 2021, Toronto — A veteran Peel Regional Police officer who was charged with theft stemming from a 2016 on-duty incident was officially acquitted in November 2020. Sgt. Eric Malone was arrested in November 2018 following allegations made in June 2018 that...
by staff | Jan 4, 2021 | Featured, Financial Fraud, Judgements
In March 2020, a jury convicted a Toronto man, 55-year-old Hugh Walker, of fraud over $5,000, possession of proceeds of crime and uttering a forged document. The amount of the fraud was $1.8 million. In September 2020, the sentencing phase of Mr. Walker’s case took...
by Admin | Jul 3, 2020 | Featured, Judgements
On May 4, 2020, Justice Ann Krahn of the Manitoba Provincial Court declared disbarred Manitoba lawyer Peter Ottavio Jachetta mentally unfit to stand trial for criminal fraud allegations made by the Crown. On June 25, 1974, Mr. Peter Jachetta was called to the Bar. On...