Corporate Fraud
Burlington man charged with alleged $1.3 million Ponzi scheme
Burlington (November 20, 2020) – The Halton police laid charges against Francesco Perre from Burlington in connection with an alleged $1.3 million Ponzi scheme. He is accused of soliciting investments from his victims for a stock market investment program. However,...
Winnipeg funeral director charged with fraud in connection with prepaid funeral plans
Winnipeg (November 9, 2020) – The Winnipeg police charged former local funeral director, Chad Robert Wheeler, for defrauding families out of their prepaid funeral costs. He has been charged with Fraud Over $5,000. 76 prepaid funeral plans were sold at Wheeler Funeral...
London financial advisor accused of $1.5M investment fraud
London (October 30, 2020) – The London police laid fraud charges against the financial advisor, Chanrith Yin, in relation to investment fraud. He is accused of bilking six of his clients out of $1.5 million during a six-year period. The police allege that he convinced...
Calgary man, wanted for multimillion-dollar funding scam, turned himself in after returning from Czech Republic
Lethbridge (September 28, 2020) – The Calgary man, Josef Korec, who was wanted for his role in a multimillion-dollar funding scam, turned himself in to Lethbridge police on September 23 after returning from the Czech Republic. Two months ago, the Lethbridge...
Three Canadians charged with securities fraud for U.S. pump-and-dump scheme
San Diego, USA (September 25, 2020) – The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of California laid charges against four men – three of them Canadians – over their roles in an alleged pump-and-dump scheme and a stock market manipulation ring. Ongkaruck...
Three Ottawa snow removal companies face fraud charges
Ottawa (September 21, 2020) – The Ottawa police laid fraud charges against three Ottawa snow removal companies. Investigators accused Snow Vaporizers, Faul Properties, and Altitude Snow Removal of accepting money from customers for snow removal services last winter,...
Barrie man charged with $56 million Ponzi scheme involving debit card terminals
Barrie (September 16, 2020) – The OPP charged the Barrie man, Charles Debono, with fraud, bribery, money laundering, and forgery for an alleged $56 million Ponzi scheme, which supposedly defrauded hundreds of victims over six years. The ‘landmark international fraud...
Toronto counterfeit operation dismantled
Toronto (September 3, 2020) – The Toronto police dismantled a counterfeiting operation and arrested a Toronto man during a search warrant on September 1. Onis Belleus is now facing forgery and fraud charges. He is accused of using the forged documentation to support...
ASC: Two Alberta residents engaged in Bluforest pump and dump scheme
Calgary (August 31, 2020) – The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) announced that they found that Cem (Jim) Can and Charles Michael Miller engaged in a fraudulent pump and dump scheme using the carbon-offsets marketing company Bluforest Inc. while breaching Alberta...
Former NB deputy attorney general arrested in GTA for fraud
Fredericton (August 28, 2020) – Peel police arrested disbarred lawyer and former New Brunswick deputy attorney general, Yassin Choukri, for fraud on August 26. He was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant by the Fredericton police on eight charges of fraud. Choukri is...
Appeal Court reduced Waterloo fraudster’s sentence
Toronto (August 27, 2020) – The Ontario Court of Appeal reduced the sentence of the convicted fraudster, Daniel Reeve, to ‘time served’. In 2018, the former chief of DPR Financial Inc. was convicted of fraud over $5,000 to 14 years in prison – the maximum sentence for...
Winnipeg man sentenced for immigration fraud
Winnipeg (August 24, 2020) – Winnipeg Provincial Court handed down the sentence on August 21 for Vladimir Bibilov in an immigration fraud case. The court found that the Winnipeg man acted as an unauthorized immigration consultant and fraudulently collected fees from...
Toronto couple charged in cosmetics Ponzi scheme targeting Filipino community
Toronto (August 18, 2020) – Toronto police arrested a man and a woman for an alleged cosmetics Ponzi scheme on August 12. Glenda Esteves (45) and Teddy Lee Esteves (44) from Toronto are accused of defrauding people from Toronto’s Filipino community out of more than...
Former financial planner charged for multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme
Calgary (August 17, 2020) – Alberta RCMP announced that they laid charges against former financial planner with Espoir Capital, Vernon Fauth, for conducting a multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme between January 2012 and July 2015. The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC)...
Brampton man arrested in taxi debit card fraud investigation
Toronto (August 10, 2020) – The Toronto police arrested Harjoban Nahal, a taxi-driver from Brampton, as the result of a five-year taxi debit card fraud investigation. The police accused Nahal of switching his costumers’ debit cards after they paid the taxi fare and...
Lanark County man facing 57 charges in used vehicle sales fraud
Ottawa (August 5, 2020) – Lanark County OPP laid 57 fraud related charges against the former business manager and used car salesman, David Lamothe. Four years ago, the police received multiple complaints against a used car store close to Ottawa related to alleged used...
Fraud charges laid against Grimsby store owner
Grimsby (July 30, 2020) – Niagara Regional Police arrested Grimsby store owner for fraud. Following a complaint, police launched an investigation into the local convenience store, Milk N Things. On July 29, officers executed a warrant and seized products bearing...
Ontario men charged for illegal stock sales by U.S. regulator
Miami (July 16, 2020) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused three men of defrauding investors out of more than US$1.9 million in illegal stock sales in connection with Arizona-based wind turbine company, Thunderbird Power Corp. The U.S....
Casting a light on elder financial abuse on World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
June 15, 2020 – Elder abuse is a serious and growing problem. June 15 is the ‘World Elder Abuse Awareness Day’, which provides an opportunity for communities to promote a better understanding of the abuse and threats that older persons are facing by raising awareness...
OSC found Quadriga’s mysterious collapse was due to fraud
Toronto (June 12, 2020) – The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) found out that the cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX collapsed in 2019 due to a fraud committed by its late founder Gerald Cotten, according to an investigative report published on June 11. When the...
Surrey accountant banned for his role in real estate marketing scheme
Vancouver (June 8, 2020) – Mutual Fund Dealers Association of Canada (MFDA) banned Surrey accountant, Vasant Pragjibhai Patel, for his part in a high-profile real estate marketing scheme, for which he allegedly obtained $425,000 in commission. A hearing panel of the...