Employee Fraud

Baie Verte (January 31, 2020) – The Baie Verte RCMP charged the former youth center coordinator Amy Ivany following an investigation in financial irregularities of the Advocate Youth Services cooperative (AYSC). The authorities accused Ivany of stealing $90,000 in...

Corner Brook (January 23, 2020) – The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) charged a woman in the wake of the Corner Brook Minor Hockey investigation. According to the local press, the accused woman is Melissa Williams, the former treasurer of the association. In...

Morden (December 9, 2019) – Morden police arrested a 19-year-old employee of a local business who allegedly had been stealing gift cards from the company and fraudulently adding credit to the cards over several months. The police investigation started on October 18...

Dryden (November 21, 2019) – Police arrested and charged former employee of local community organizations, Peggy Ledoux, with fraud and falsification of documents on November 6. She is accused of stealing approximately more than $30,000 in total from the Dryden...

Hamilton (November 18, 2019) – Hamilton Police are investigating the former executive director of the Sikh Society of Hamilton-Wentworth, Jatinder Labana, for fraud and forgery. The investigation started in August 2019 following complaints about financial...

Dartmouth (November 5, 2019) – The former executive director of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia, Tammy Gloade, received a 60-day jail sentence for fraud and forgery from Dartmouth provincial court. She defrauded the charity, she was working for, out...

Montreal (October 31, 2019) – Quebec’s Anti-Corruption Unit (UPAC) arrested former Director of Recreation of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts in Gaspé region, Michel Gosselin, on October 30 as a result of a one-year investigation. He is alleged of misappropriating more than...

North Glengarry (October 28, 2019) – The former employee of North Glengarry Township, Sandra Cameron, has been charged by OPP’s Anti-Rackets Branch. The investigation started two years ago. After an internal audit, Cameron was accused of municipal corruption and...

St. Catharines (October 23, 2019) – Alicia MacKinnon from Niagara Falls was arrested and charged on October 22 for allegedly defrauding a St. Catharines Family Law Office. Niagara Police’s Central Fraud Unit has been investigating the issue since August when the law...

London (October 23, 2019) – Former priest at St. Joseph Church in London, Amer Saka, was sentenced to two years in prison on October 22 for defrauding refugee sponsors. Approximately between 2013 and 2015, the Chaldean Catholic priest fraudulently gambled away more...

Charlottetown (October 17, 2019) – Former Andrews Hockey Growth Programs’ comptroller, Courtney Patricia Johnston, was sentenced to 60 days in jail for defrauding her former employer in provincial court in Charlottetown on October 15. Within a stretch of four months,...

St. John's (October 15, 2019) – A fraudulent former school accountant, Kimberly Stagg, was sentenced for defrauding her then employer St. Bonaventure’s college of more than half a million dollars. After she had pleaded guilty in June, she was sentenced to 3 years in...

Nanaimo (October 7, 2019) – Jennifer Elizabeth Wood from Nanaimo was sentenced for defrauding two local businesses of almost $43,000 on October 3. She performed a fraudulent return scheme on her former employer Slegg Building Materials in 2016 and drove away from a...

Vaughan (October 4, 2019) – OPP’s economic crime and corruption squad charged former Vaughan mayor Michael Di Biase with breach of trust and municipal corruption as a result of a four-and-a-half-years investigation. Di Biase is accused of receiving a benefit from the...

Toronto (October 3, 2019) – Sharina Imran-Khan, a bookkeeper from Toronto, allegedly defrauded her employer BHI Holdings out of $2 million in a three year period. As a result of a fraud investigation of the Toronto Police, the 42-year-old was arrested and charged with...

Hamilton (September 26, 2019) – Former CIBC branch manager, Sandra Walker, who allegedly stole $1.7 million has been charged with fraud. Hamilton police arrested the former CIBC employee on September 24. She is alleged to have defrauded costumers of the Stoney Creek...

Calgary (September 24, 2019) – Gambling addicted former bookkeeper, Colleen Fay Dhuga, has been sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for defrauding her former employer David Anderson out of almost $1.2 million over 6 years. After Dhuga pleaded guilty in February, the...