Employee Fraud
Former comptroller of hockey training school sentenced for fraud
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,...
Fraudulent school accountant sentenced for half-million-dollar fraud
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...
Used car salesman defrauds 14 customers over two years by selling cars he never delivered
Dartmouth (October 8, 2019) – Used car salesman, Michael David Surette, duped 14 customers between 2015 and 2018 by selling cars he never delivered. The total amount the customers of the Used Car Factory 21 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia were defrauded of adds up to...
Nanaimo Woman sentenced for defrauding two local businesses of about $43K
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...
Former Vaughan mayor Di Biase charged with breach of trust and municipal corruption
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 bookkeeper allegedly defrauds employer out of $2M
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...
Former CIBC branch manager who allegedly stole $1.7 million charged with fraud
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...
Gambling addicted woman sentenced to 3.5 years in prison after defrauding her former employer out of almost $1.2 million
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...
Charity’s director of finance almost drove ‘New Visions Toronto’ into bankruptcy
Toronto (September 23, 2019) – New Visions Toronto’s former director of finance defrauded the charity of $904,784 within three years. Marica Motayne’s payroll scam forced New Visions Toronto to make major cutbacks for their clients’ care and almost drove it into...
Former treasurer of East Hawkesbury charged with 25 counts of fraud
East Hawkesbury (August 19, 2019) – The former treasurer of the township of East Hawkesbury in eastern Ontario, Linda Rozon, has been charged with 25 counts of fraud. The 59-year old allegedly defrauded the municipality of $375,825 while in office in over nine years....
Former employee defrauds County of Lethbridge of $49,000
Lethbridge (August 14, 2019) – Brandi Leanne Doucette allegedly defrauded the County of Lethbridge of $49,000 between 2016 and 2019, according to the Lethbridge Police. The 40-year-old has been charged for theft and fraud. Doucette was employed by the municipality at...
Former executive director of hospice association sentenced to eight months in jail for fraud
Vancouver (August 02, 2019) – Susan Steen was sentenced to eight months in jail for fraud. She was using her position as executive director of the Central Okanagan Hospice Association (COHA) to defraud the organization of $109,878. She has to pay back $106,000 in...
Ontario Minor Hockey Association’s former director of finance accused of misappropriation of $2.365 million
Richmond Hill (July 26, 2019) – Ontario Minor Hockey Association’s former director of finance, Jennifer Robinson is accused of misappropriation of $2.365 million and scheduled to appear in a Newmarket court July, 25, YorkRegion.com reports. Jennifer Robinson stole the...
Toronto hospital fires around 150 employees after uncovering multimillion-dollar fraud
July 12, 2019 - In what could be one of the largest and longest-lasting benefits fraud schemes ever discovered in Canada, a Toronto geriatric hospital has dismissed approximately 150 employees for falsely claiming as much as $5 million in benefits over an eight-year...
Former CFO of Edmonton-based agri-business charged in $2.45M fraud
Feb. 28, 2019 - The former chief financial officer of an Edmonton-area agri-business group has been charged with misappropriating millions of dollars in corporate funds. Patrick Stephen Bieleny, 52, was arrested last Thursday and charged with 12 counts...
Support worker who stole from the elderly arrested again for fraud, theft: police
Feb. 37, 2019 - A Burlington personal support worker who was already facing charges for stealing from elderly, police say, has been re-arrested for fraud and theft. The woman was taken into custody on Feb. 20 and charged with fraud under $5,000, two counts of...
Dad and daughter fined $4m for stealing winning lottery ticket
Feb. 27, 2019 - Jun-Chul Chung, 68, and his daughter Kathleen Chung, 36, were sentenced to seven and four years in prison. Her brother, Kenneth Chung, who ran the convenience store in a Toronto suburb where his father worked, was given a 10-month sentence. The real...
B.C. woman with gambling habit pleads guilty to embezzling $1.2 million from Calgary employer
Feb. 26, 2019(Courtesy of CBC.ca) - When she was finally caught after stealing $1.2 million from her Calgary employer over a six-year period, Kelowna, B.C., resident Colleen Dhuga blamed a gambling addiction. Dhuga, 50, pleaded guilty to a charge of fraud over...
Former manager at Colliers International’s Calgary office charged with fraud
Dec. 20, 2018 (courtesy of CTVnews.ca) - A woman is facing charges in connection to a fraud case that resulted in the embezzlement of over $700,000 from an organization that supports local charities. Police say a former operations manager at the Calgary office of...
Edmonton woman, 68, charged in relation to $1.4M payroll fraud
Nov. 14, 2018 (Courtesy of CBC.ca) - A 68-year-old Edmonton woman has been charged with fraud and theft in relation to a seven-year payroll fraud worth $1.4 million. The woman is thought to have falsified paycheques for more than 500 former employees of an Edmonton...
Former WestJet employee pleads guilty to defrauding airline of $138K in travel credits
Nov. 8, 2018 (Courtesy of CBC.ca) - A former WestJet employee has admitted to defrauding the company of more than $138,000 by issuing travel dollars to his friends and others who would pay him for the credits. Terance Gough pleaded guilty to fraud over $5,000 on...