by Black Press | Feb 28, 2021 | Breaking Court Decisions, Recent Articles
Feb. 28, 2021 – The Canada Revenue Agency says a West Vancouver man has been sentenced to 29 months in jail and handed a stiff fine for attempting to avoid a tax bill. Court records show Michael Sholz was sentenced Wednesday in provincial court in Vancouver....
by Admin | Mar 1, 2018 | Featured, Recent Articles
As consumers increasingly flock online, so are scam artists. At the top of the Better Business Bureau scam list for 2017 was online purchase scams, said the organization’s local CEO Danielle Primrose as she announced March as fraud prevention month. Online purchase...
by Admin | Feb 16, 2018 | Financial Fraud, Recent Articles
Months after the U.S. Treasury lifted a label placing Vancouver’s PacNet Services alongside some of the world’s most violent criminal organizations, the payments processor is facing a lawsuit from B.C.’s Director of Civil Forfeiture. The B.C. Supreme...
by Admin | Jan 29, 2018 | Featured, Food Fraud
UBC researchers are developing new techniques to identify the seafood sold in Metro Vancouver and they say their findings, released Friday, point to widespread seafood fraud. By using a technique called DNA barcoding, researchers were able to identify the genes of...
by Admin | Jan 26, 2018 | International Fraud, Recent Articles
The allegations that Vancouver condo developer Mark John Chandler faces in the U.S. “leap over the line between property developer and fraudster,” a Canadian Department of Justice lawyer told B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday. While Chandler’s lawyer argued the Americans...