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A Canadian government consultant has pleaded guilty to stealing from a breakfast programme aimed at children living in Kashechewan First Nation.
Giuseppe Crupi was appointed by the government to co-manage the programme for Cree children in northern Ontario.
Between 2007-12, police say he took C$1.2m ($930,000, £700,000) from the programme and misappropriated nearly C$700,000 for personal use.
Read more at BBC News
An ongoing Canada Revenue Agency scam has taken a high-tech turn that’s defrauded members of the public out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Police in York Region said 40 victims in the community have sent more than $300,000 to fraudsters using Bitcoin machines.
Police said the victims have been contacted by phone and told that they have overdue taxes to pay and if they don’t, they will be arrested. In the recent cases, the victims have been told to send their money using Bitcoin ATMs.
Read more at City News
The CEO of drug giant Insys Therapeutics bribed doctors to prescribe more opioids to patients who didn’t even need them, according to federal authorities who arrested the executive after a raid on Thursday—a major offensive in the battle against America’s opioid epidemic.
John Kapoor, the billionaire founder and CEO, led “a nationwide conspiracy to profit by using bribes and fraud to cause the illegal distribution of a fentanyl spray intended for cancer patients experiencing breakthrough pain,” the Department of Justice said in a statement.
Read more at Newsweek
He dressed like a lawyer, talked like a lawyer and worked as a lawyer, but in reality, 34-year-old Inayat Kassam was a smooth-talking fraudster with a law degree that wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on.
The Aurora, Ont., man purchased his phoney law degree online five years ago from the University of Renfrew. The school has no officially recognized accreditation and its website features a fake address in Tampa, Fla., and stock images of supposed faculty members.
He previously purchased a bachelor of arts from Ashwood University, another fake school that claims to be based in Florida.
Read more at CBC News
A Marketplace investigation of the world’s largest diploma mill has discovered many Canadians could be putting their health and well-being in the hands of nurses, engineers, counsellors and other professionals with phoney credentials.
Fake diplomas are a billion-dollar industry, according to experts, and Marketplace obtained business records of its biggest player, a Pakistan-based IT firm called Axact. The team spent months combing through thousands of degree transactions, cross referencing personal information with customers’ social media profiles.
The investigation revealed more than 800 Canadians could have purchased a fake degree.
Read more at CBC News
A London woman has been charged with defrauding Veterans Affairs Canada of more than $26,000 following an eight month investigation by the RCMP.
Terrill Anne Brooke, 61, is charged with fraud over $5,000 after allegedly accepting veteran survivor benefits after the recipient had died, according to a release Thursday from the RCMP.
Read more at CBC News
Washington (CNN)When Insys Therapeutics got approval to sell an ultra-powerful opioid for cancer patients with acute pain in 2012, it soon discovered a problem: finding enough cancer patients to use the drug.
To boost sales, the company allegedly took patients who didn’t have cancer and made it look like they did.
The drug maker used a combination of tactics, such as falsifying medical records, misleading insurance companies and providing kickbacks to doctors in league with the company, according to a federal indictment and ongoing congressional investigation by Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat from Missouri.
Read more at CNN Politics
The Alberta Crown wants bail revoked for a scam artist with a long record of convictions who now faces a staggering 399 new fraud-related charges involving five people in the Strathmore area, east of Calgary.
Jane Elizabeth Moore appeared in court in Strathmore via closed-circuit television on Tuesday morning. She made no other comments other than to acknowledge to the court that she was Jane Elizabeth Moore.
Read more at CBC News
An Edmonton university says it was the victim of an email “phishing attack” that resulted in the transfer of $11.8 million to a bank account staff believed belonged to a vendor.
MacEwan University said “inadequate” controls on banking information played a role in the fraud, which was discovered Aug. 23.
The fraud involved three transactions of varying amounts, the university said. Several opportunities to identify the fraud were missed.
Most of the money — more than $11.4 million — has been traced to accounts in Canada and Hong Kong, the university said in a news release Thursday.
Read more at CBC News
Jeremy (Jay) Peers has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud, misrepresentations, and dealing and advising in securities without registration under the Alberta Securities Act.
Alberta provincial court Judge Fred Day called Peers “a con man,” as he delivered his sentence in an Alberta courtroom.
Peers, the grandson of early Edmonton mayor and coal baron Harry Marshall Erskine Evans, was the key player behind one of the biggest, most complex securities frauds in recent Alberta history.
read more at canadianfraudnews.com