Construction Fraud
Calgary police officer charged with theft, fraud and assault
Aug 7, 2018 (Courtesy of The Canadian Press) - A Calgary police officer has been charged with theft, fraud and assault while he was on leave for what police describe as an "unrelated matter." Police said in May of this year, Airdrie RCMP began investigating a number...
read more
Man faces charges for making and selling fake transit passes in Calgary
Aug 3, 2018 ( Courtesy of CTVnews.ca ) - Calgary police have charged a man after a lengthy investigation led to the discovery of more than $1 million in fake transit passes. The year-long investigation involved nine search warrants and eventually led to arrest of a...
read more
West Vancouver police warn of elaborate online video scam
July 31, 2018( Courtesy of The Canadian Press) - West Vancouver police are warning the public about a new online scam using personal email addresses and passwords. Police say victims receive an email that includes the recipient's current or past email password. The...
read more
Nigerian Man Living In Canada Receives 14 Years In U.S. Prison For Leading Fraud Ring
July 31, 2018 - A Nigerian man must serve 14 years in a U.S. prison for leading a fraud ring that prosecutors in Texas say laundered $3.5 million from hundreds of victims. Ochuko Sylvester Eruotor was sentenced Friday in Austin. The 42-year-old Eruotor, who lived in...
read more
Central Alberta man charged in ‘elaborate’ $2.6M fracking fraud
July 31, 2018 ( Courtesy of CBC.ca) - A central Alberta man is facing fraud charges after a five-year investigation and more than $2 million in losses to investors. RCMP say Dane Skinner, 53, misrepresented and advertised a revolutionary fracking product,...
read more
Revenue Quebec fines Montreal restaurateur $650,000 for tax fraud
July 25, 2018( Courtesy of montrealgazette.com ) - A Montreal restaurateur has been fined $650,000 and given a suspended sentence of 18 months after pleading guilty to tax fraud, Revenue Quebec announced on Tuesday. Giorgio Damiani pleaded guilty on June 11 to...
read more
Edmonton man charged in $5.5 million Ponzi scheme
July 24, 2018 (Courtesy of CBC.ca) - Edmonton police say they have uncovered a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme involving hundreds of fraudulent mortgage loans. Police allege Timothy Carruthers facilitated 257 fraudulent bridge mortgage loans worth a total of $5.5...
read more
Fraud case charges stayed because of judge shortage in Ontario Superior Court
July 24, 2018 (Courtesy of CTVnews.ca) - Five men accused in an alleged multimillion-dollar fraud scheme have had all charges against them stayed because of a shortage of judges in Ontario's Superior Court of Justice. Earlier this year, a judge attempting to set a...
read more
Undaunted by creditors and fraud charges, Peter Pocklington launches pot company
July 20, 2018 ( Courtesy of CBC.ca) - Former Edmonton Oilers owner Peter Pocklington still owes the Alberta government more than $13 million from an unpaid 1988 loan for a failed meat-packing plant. In Arizona, Pocklington and an associate have so far reneged on...
read more
Allegations of inflated property values at centre of RCMP syndicated mortgage fraud investigation
July 19, 2018 (Courtesy of CBC.ca) -Inflated property values and the promotion of non-qualifying investments as being RRSP-eligible are some of the key allegations made by the RCMP in a search warrant application it filed to authorize an April raid on six Toronto-area...
read more
Former Royal Canadian Legion treasurer charged with theft and fraud The Canadian Press
July 19, 2018 (Courtesy of The Canadian Press) - Provincial police say the former treasurer of the Royal Canadian Legion in Flesherton, Ont., is facing theft and fraud charges. Police say the president of the Legion branch reported in February that approximately...
read more
Don’t fall for ‘gifting cloud’ pyramid schemes, warn Drumheller RCMP
July 19,2018 (Courtesy of CBC.ca) - Drumheller RCMP have issued a warning following what they say is an increase in invitations to participate in "gifting cloud" pyramid schemes in the southern Alberta town. The events, also known as "pay-it-forward clouds" or...
read more
Man convicted in $600,000 Canada Revenue fraud to be sentenced in September
July 19 2018 (Courtesy of www.edmontonjournal.com) - A tax-preparer found responsible for filing $2.9 million in false claims to the Canada Revenue Agency will be sentenced in September. The result of filing nearly $3 million in false claims was a fraud of about...
read more
Jury finds Quebec construction mogul Tony Accurso guilty of fraud, other charges
June 27, 2018 (Courtesy of CTVnews.ca) - A jury has found Quebec construction magnate Tony Accurso guilty on all five charges he was facing including fraud and corruption. Accurso, 66, was impassive as the jury delivered the verdicts on their seventh day of...
read more
Pyramid-scheme probe with ties to Canada and China leads NZ police to freeze $70m
June 26, 2018 - Nearly $70 million in bank accounts has been frozen - easily the largest case in New Zealand - as part of a global investigation into a wealthy Chinese businessman accused of running a massive pyramid scheme from Canada. Xiao Hua Gong has built a...
read more
Real police say fake Mounties weren’t actually involved in scam of B.C. woman
June 25, 2018 (Courtesy of the Canadian Press) -Vancouver police say a woman who claimed to have been arrested by fake police officers in a fraud scheme exaggerated her report. Police now say that the woman was never physically approached by people claiming to be...
read more
Ottawa wants to close loopholes that let terrorists, criminals use Bitcoin to commit fraud
June 21,2018 (Courtesy of the Canadian Press) - The federal government is proposing measures that take aim at shadowy payments made by terrorists and money launderers using virtual currencies and prepaid credit cards. The planned regulations would help close loopholes...
read more
Ex-MP received ‘secret’ cut of $12.4M deal in resort town run by his sister, OPP probe alleges
Unsealed police documents from 2014 allege fraud and breach of trust involving Collingwood town hall June 19, 2018 ( Courtesy of CBC.ca) - A former Liberal MP may have used his connections with municipal officials in a popular vacation town northwest of Toronto —...
read more
AHS warning of text scam involving the organization
June 15, 2018 ( Courtesy of Globalnews.ca) - Alberta Health Services (AHS) is warning Albertans of a phishing scam where a text message seemingly from the organization includes a link to what looks like an e-transfer site. In a news release on Wednesday, AHS said the...
read more
Red Deer woman charged with stealing $1M from ATB Financial in Sylvan Lake
June 13, 2018 ( Courtesy of globalnews.ca ) - Mounties in central Alberta have arrested a former ATB Financial bank worker for allegedly stealing $1.1 million from her employer. RCMP said the woman was working at the ATB Financial branch in Sylvan Lake when she...
read more
Canada Declares War on Cryptocurrency Fraud with Mandatory KYC/AML Regulations
Canada’s Fraud Crackdown June 13, 2018 (Courtesy of btcmanager.com ) - As stated in the draft published by Canada Gazette, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) pointed out some inadequacies in the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Regime (AML/ATF)....
read more